Advisory
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Technology Strategy
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Management, Risk and Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the worlds largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
Our team works with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and we build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. Our focus areas include helping our clients align their Information Technology capabilities with their business strategy, create integrated, end to end technology solutions, and leverage data and enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
- Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
- Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
- Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
- Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
- Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
- Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
- Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
- Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
- The main purpose of the job is to engage and support a multi-skilled technology consulting team in the delivery of services on delegated client engagements/ projects in order to bring insightful and pragmatic strategic guidance and solutions.
- Investigate, analyze and bring new technologies and techniques to our clients, through innovative engagements, which have the potential to transform and improve their current IT architecture and processes.
- Assist the technology consulting management team to identify and solve the most important client issues, while outlining opportunities that maximize value by conducting rigorous analysis, creating value and delivering world-class IT capabilities/solutions to support their strategic business needs/goals.
What you will do:
As a Technical Strategy Consultant, you will partner and work with a Tech Lead and Management team to drive the strategic engagements in the Technology consulting space, also participate in strategic projects across a range of topics that are short-term and high impact as assigned by the Partner that will require agility and speed in delivery. These projects will vary across industries and subjects, from future-looking technology trends, tactical organizational assessments and enterprise-wide architecture. Working on our clients strategic direction, you will directly contribute to shape the transformation of our clients business by applying technology frameworks and principles to analyze our clients strategic challenges, solving complex problems, and helping them realize their business strategy through the right use of new technologies.
Responsibilities
Technology Strategy Consultants typically complete the following responsibilities:
Deliver efficient, timely, and reliable service to support business partners and the Technology Consulting team, and have the ability to prioritize and think critically on tight deadlines.
Managing deliverables with self-direction and a commitment to quality.
Build knowledge of, and research the current IT environment and industryIT trends to evolve the Technology Consulting Strategy as and when needed.
Support execution of key projects, including engaging in proposal writing, workshop facilitation sessions and proposal documentation for our clients.
Technical Responsibilities:
Create detailed target state technical, architecture designs incorporating modern technologies demonstrating value proposition for clients.
Conduct full technical discovery, identifying pain points, business, and technical requirements, as is and to be scenarios.
Apply methodology, reusable assets, and previous work experience to deliver consistently high-quality work.
Stay educated on new and emerging technologies/patterns/methodologies and market offerings that may be of interest to our Clients.
Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
General
Can do attitude.
Innovative and interested in learning new technologies.
Resilient.
Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress.
Strategic and big picture thinking.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE
KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Bachelors degree that has given you an opportunity to grow your problem-solving skills (Computer Science, Informatics, BSc IT, BSc Eng., BEng or relevant technology discipline).
- Certifications in TOGAF, Project Management or relevant technologies are a plus.
- Business Analysis diploma is a plus.
- Masters degree is a plus.
- Minimum 3 to 5 years of relevant experience
- Relevant experience includes, but not limited to Technology-related consulting, Strategy planning and execution, Business Analysis, Architecture.
- Must have a technology background and experience in supporting and communicating with executive leaders and an ability to translate complex technical information into understandable content for the right audience (e.g., corporate executives, business partners, technical clients etc)
- Strong understanding of information technology topics, as well as general business concepts and terminologies.
- Ability to write about technical topics in a simple and clear manner applicable to a variety of audiences.
- Must be able to comprehend, analyze and interpret documents with the ability to note critical takeaways.
- Knowledge on latest technology advancements (in a certain technology area and/or industry) based on previous experience and interest in the latest innovations.
- Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with senior executive-level leaders.
- Works independently while keeping management informed.
- Ability to elicit requirements in order to document clients requirements and needs.
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Government Clearance Required?
Yes
Job Posting End Date
January 20, 2024
