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Application Developer

Accenture

Accenture

Software Engineering
Posted on Aug 13, 2025
Project Role : Application Developer
Project Role Description : Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.
Must have skills : Workday Data Mapping & Conversions
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in managing large-scale, complex green field implementations, transformations, and migrations. This role is critical for turning around troubled projects_requiring the ability to assess the current state, define recovery solutions, and execute recovery plans with minimal impact on cost, schedule, and scope. Roles & Responsibilities: • Proven experience in recovering, stabilizing, and realigning projects facing significant delivery challenges. Demonstrated ability to restore delivery excellence • Manage delivery recovery efforts end-to-end—including issue identification, impact assessment, recovery solutioning, and execution of turnaround plans. • Manage robust delivery governance frameworks aligned with TDLC, Agile, or SAFe methodologies, ensuring strict adherence to sprint cycles, milestones, and process standards. • Successfully re-baselined delivery plans, managed risks and issues proactively, and realigned delivery commitments with client expectations to restore program health. • Monitored and enhanced Delivery Experience (DEX), drove reductions in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), and improved delivery quality through measurable KPIs. • Built and maintained trust with internal and external stakeholders through structured communications, governance routines, and proactive engagement. • Support Steering Committees, weekly executive connects, and status reviews to ensure transparency, alignment, and stakeholder confidence. • Tracked and analysed key schedule, quality & financial metrics (Ex) SPI, burn rate, forecast accuracy, margin, and budget compliance. Identified cost leakages and led commercial resets and Estimate at Completion (EAC) recovery initiatives. • Proactively identified delivery risks and implemented preventive or corrective actions. Ensured compliance with internal audits, InfoSec requirements, and quality gates. • Provided hands on to address complex technical and project-level challenges across teams. • Managed contract deliverables, including financial constructs, liability clauses, dependencies, and entry/exit criteria. • Drove excellence through agile methodologies, quality frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Hand on Experience in at least one major enterprise platform—SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, o9 Solutions, or other supply chain platforms. • Hands on in one or more business domains—Finance, HR, Supply Chain Management, or Customer Experience. • Experience in Agile and SI delivery principles with a focus on transformation excellence, governance, and stakeholder satisfaction. • Manage day-to-day execution, sprint coordination, issue tracking, and team-level quality management, team coaching. Create MPP/MSPS plan, track schedule, cost & quality. Track effort variance, rework costs, and non-compliance cost impact. Manage RAID logs, support internal compliance, and documentation. Professional & Technical Skills: • Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions • Good to have Skill: Configuration & Release Management • Supported platform design validations and pivot decisions. Developed and executed platform realignment decisions. • Mentored technical teams, and developed reusable assets, knowledge bases, and recovery playbooks. • Managed and coached high-performing delivery teams. Oversaw knowledge transition, onboarding, and skills alignment for sustainable delivery capability. • AMS End to End Recovery experience • Manage workforce planning, readiness tracking, and onboarding quality. • Exposure to GenAI technologies. Additional Information: • The candidate should have minimum 13–15 years of experience in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions • PMI, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification • Relevant platform certifications (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, o9, Supply Chain Platform etc.) • A 15 years full time education is required. • Position Open across PAN India15 years full time education

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