A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. Our Information Technology Generalist - Practice Support team focuses on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing internal applications, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for PwC to drive strategic business growth.

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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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:

- Take action to ensure everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all.
- Establish the root causes of issues and tackle them, rather than just the symptoms.
- Initiate open and honest 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.
- Develop specialised expertise in one or more areas.
- Advise stakeholders on relevant technical issues for their business area.
- Navigate the complexities of global teams and engagements.
- Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation.
- Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

CrossPlatfrom Release Manager

Role

• Provide technical leadership to project team(s) to perform design to deployment related activities, provide guidance, perform reviews, prevent technical issues and facilitate their resolution. 

• Demonstrates abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in project management of medium-to-large software development or infrastructure projects; and working in large program environments.

• Collaborate with multiple teams within the PwC BOS programme to arrive at technical and tactical decisions.

• Collaboratively managing Sponsor/customer expectations and communicating with stakeholders and sponsors on a regular basis.

• Incorporates updates and changes to the integrated cross-platform release plan and prepares reports and presentations for executive levels; 

• Applying project management and agile knowledge to identify, escalate, and remove team impediments that jeopardize success; and 

• Influencing project team members to identify and address project issues, including leadership and interdependent teams.

Key Skills:

• 3+ years of technical project management

• 2+ years of business process development

• Ability to work effectively with both technical and business teams

• Experience with Cloud based SaaS solutions (Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Workday)

• Ability to Manage and facilitate work in a matrixed organization

• Ability to work in a global environment that is both culturally and geographically diverse.

• Ability to own and maintain consolidated release plan for multiple platforms; and

• Ability to collaborate with platform teams, stakeholders and sponsors to address plan interdependencies and resolve conflicts.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: 

• Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in strategic IT including the following areas:
  • Building trusting and influential relationships and engaging with multidisciplinary teams, vendors and third parties as appropriate; 
  • Collaborating with Architects and Developers to provide technical design guidance to align with strategy and applicable technical standards; 
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in resolving complex technical issues
• demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in making Technology design recommendations including the following areas:
  • Working with Architectural design and application delivery;
  • Leading efforts within established Software Development Lifecycles and methodologies including agile, scrum, iterative and waterfall, using blended resources;
  • Demonstrating analytical thinking skills with the ability to identify, debug and facilitate resolution of technical issues and Lean IT principles and data driven approaches; and 
  • Understanding of APIM and knowledge of security models with hands on experience with API management platforms (MuleSoft, Apigee, Layer 7, Kong or others);
  • Working with Cloud based platforms and services (Google Cloud Platform, MS Azure, AWS);
  • Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues and application rationalization.
  • Displaying initiative and an ability to lead others;

Offer

• Career development and professional growth in a global team setting

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Opportunity to work on a top-notch technology stack, modern cloud solutions and the global-scale projects

• Inspiring and friendly work setting

• Career plan tailored to your preferences and ambitions.