Senior Cloud Architect | Senior Manager | Technology Consulting | Advisory | Dublin/Cork

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Technology Strategy

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

About PwC Technology Consulting

At PwC, we recognise the opportunities that can be achieved when we embrace what technology has to offer. Our Technology Consulting team are dedicated to leveraging technology in order to solve complex business problems for our clients. We work with Ireland’s largest organisations across a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare industry and the public sector. With PwC, you will get the opportunity to work with clients along the entire technology lifecycle, from developing IT strategy through to system implementation.

A career within Technology & Digital Consulting will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical challenges. We focus on building technology enabled and agile operating models, planning new enterprise architectures and delivering differentiating system capability that helps clients win in the market. We also leverage digital analytics to enhance the customer experience and use modern technologies such as robotic process automation to help our clients get fit for growth.

The team is a mix of technical and business professionals and expects everyone involved to fix problems and address challenges of every kind. The role would be deployed to client projects across the development lifecycle, which may be at different phases varying from ideation to commercialisation. We are looking for talents who are passionate, with the desire to solve problems and would be adaptive to a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

As a Senior Cloud Architect, you'll work within the Technology & Digital Consulting team and lead a team of problem solvers, leveraging emerging cloud technology and services to solve complex business challenges from strategy to execution.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead technical teams participating in multiple concurrent cloud focused projects for our clients

• Gathering and assessing client requirements, and translating these into solution requirements and design

• Collaborate with cross functional team members to develop and propose cloud based solutions to existing and potential clients

• Develop reference architectures and best practice approaches to optimise clients’ cloud adoption, application performance, security, and cost models

• Manage and grow a collection of new and existing client relationships

• Provide technical and go to market leadership focused on asset driven cloud based solutions and services, collaborate and lead development focused teams members to bring cloud based solutions to market

• Recruit and develop a highly capable cloud engineering team, provide coaching and foster an environment where technical professionals can develop their skills and grow their careers; taking on increased responsibility and adding value to the organisation

• Lead initiatives identified to shape the foundation for the cloud engineering practice, refine resource requirements, project workflow, operating budget requirements

• Develop new and existing internal and external client relationships leveraging innovative methodologies, practices, tools and assets to address key market trends and challenges

• Help others think critically and educate non-technical audiences and stakeholders on complex technical solutions both orally and in writing

• Be a active member in the technology community, provide thought leadership and mentorship, share your knowledge and expertise

• Collaborate with senior leadership to define, develop and implement the strategic direction and focus on emerging enterprise cloud transformation services

• Continue to advance your skills, knowledge and network related to your field

Job Responsibilities

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.

Minimum Qualifications / Your Profile

• BA/BS degree in computer science, IT or business related discipline

• At least 5 years experience in the field of cloud computing.

• Certifications from one or more key cloud providers e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or GCP.

• Knowledge of high availability architecture and cost optimisation.

• Experience leading high performing teams in the creation of ‘cloud first’ technology solutions.

• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate the rationale behind architectural decisions to a broad set of stakeholders.

• Experience of advising clients on cloud service models post migration/transformation and ongoing application and Infrastructure support and maintenance models.

Why you’ll love working for PwC (Benefits)

We want you to love every minute of your career. But  we get it: each stage of life comes with a new set of priorities and demands. This is why we support you with a range of financial and non-financial rewards and benefits. There’s something for everyone. Here’s just a flavour:

• A competitive compensation package with a defined career path

• Defined Contribution Pension Plan

• Subsidised healthcare insurance

• Wedding leave and gratuity, paid maternity leave, new parent leave;

• Flexible working arrangements

  • “Everyday flexibility”: Supporting our staff to be productive and have a balance between their working and personal lives.

  • “Hybrid working”: A blended arrangement that allows working from home and in the office depending on business, client and team needs

  • “Flexible Friday”: A 3pm finish on Fridays through the Summer and ahead of bank holidays

• On-site gym and shower facilities, fitness classes and wellbeing services

• On-site restaurant, shop, dry cleaning service and great coffee in our excellent coffee shop

• Commitment to digital transformation. All our employees attend our Digital Academy Training

• A dedicated team of Learning and Development professionals who work tirelessly to deliver an evolving training framework. It’s our goal to continuously develop our employees' technical and professional skills

• Training is centred around the “PwC Professional” our global leadership framework. It focuses on developing your core skills to become an authentic and inclusive leader for all levels

• You’ll be paired with mentors to help you develop your skills, diversify your experience and support you in achieving your career goals.

• We’ve over 3,000 people working in PwC Ireland and we hire over 300 graduates every year along with 300+ experienced hires so there is always lots going on with different societies and social events and you can get involved in as many or as little as you want.

• Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is really important to us also and last year we were certified to the Business Working Responsibly Mark. The Mark assesses best in class corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability and looks at leadership, policies, practices, performance, and impact in areas such as; employee engagement, innovation, environmental practices, supply chain management and engagement with the local community and we are one of only 29 companies in Ireland to achieve this.

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