Job Description
PwC's Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations often associated with their regulatory, risk and/or compliance agendas. We bring together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resources and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost-effective solution to operational delivery challenges.
Our capabilities stretch across a number of Service Areas including; Financial Crime, Customer Management, Compliance Testing, PMO, Contract Solutions, Finance Solutions, Business Operations, Change Solutions and Technology Solutions. We have over 2,600 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.
Our Projects and Delivery team develop, manage and run advanced, real-world technology for clients.
We're a diverse group of over 400, made up of developers, experts in low-code, Data and AI experts, RPA engineers, Support Specialists, Technical BAs and project managers - but we combine our skills and plug into our clients' organisations to make sure that cutting-edge operational technology is valuable in the real-world, day-to-day. That might mean configuring and managing industry standard solutions, or adapting PwC's own proprietary technologies.
We are looking for a Director who will lead and develop the SI & Development Practice within Operate Digital. Working primarily in Cloud Transformational services and Projects, you will also work with Partners and Directors to develop new business, input into thought leadership and support the development of our teams. Our projects typically span Multiple sectors within Private and Public and Global Markets
Role Responsibilities:
- Utilising your experience in design and technical development in areas such as Full stack development, Systems Integration, Rules engines, Workflow, Information Security, RPA, Data & Analytics
- Identification of how digitisation, automation and/or workflow can enhance productivity
- Utilising your technical experience, including understanding of Application Architecture, Process Architecture and Data Architecture (automation technology, Data solutions, Infrastructure),
- Developing technology solutions to operational challenges
- Solution Architect/Design of Digital front to back applications
- Business case definition
- Middle and back office operational technology design and implementation
- Web Portal and Web Application Development
- Focus on developing and integrating APIs
- Agile Development workflow
- Responsible for functionality and Quality of regular releases.
- Leadership and mentoring of junior developers.
- Contributing to decisions on hosting, scaling and security.
Requirements
- Solution design, Agile Devops, Software development using full stack technologies
- Scrum Master and project management experience
- Lead a team of Python or Java developers with solid understanding of web development and related packages (Flask/Django, Hibernate/Spring, Gunicorn and ORM) - We may consider significant experiences in aligned languages and frameworks.
- Database and caching technologies (eg PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Strategic cost reduction, cost analysis, business case development, initiative development and delivery
- Experience using one or more of the following tools
- Mendix/Appian
- Uipath
- Celonis
- Microsoft Power Apps
- Applying DevOps strategies, designs, implementations, and tools capabilities/functionalities
- Leading client-facing business development at a C-suite level, engagement delivery, practice development.
- Have extensive experience of delivering large, complex and multi-vendor projects;
- Have market presence, having a personal significant track record of delivering impactful results across a large network of clients;
- An inspiring team leader, able to rapidly establish and lead high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams, drawn from across PwC, our clients' staff and third party organisations
- Be accomplished in building effective relationships with third-party delivery organisations through the process of sourcing selecting, and managing the technical engagement with vendors/software providers;
- A confident and impactful communicator, both written and verbal, able to clearly explain solution design to non-technical audiences, and technical design to technical audiences; and
- Committed to seeking and acting on feedback and learning opportunities.
The skills we look for in future employees
Our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional'.
The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.
Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.
As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
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The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
Learn more here:
The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:
Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.
