Job Purpose
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Platform, Solution or Enterprise Architect who enjoys working in a Research and Development environment to both drive strategic thinking and engage in immediate architecture challenges to create a significant R&D capability within a large organisation from the ground up.
The role will be to initially establish the current business problems and derive a strategic platform and technology roadmap so as to drive innovation through R&D. Thereafter hands on architecture support to drive out implementation for both vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions will be required.
The post will require that aside from technology architectural aspects the individual will be innovative and comfortable engaging with internal customers, stakeholders, supporting programme planning, budgetary control, building and managing a sustainable team of Software Engineering staff.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Platform Architect - PwC’s Operate
- Grade: Senior Manager
Who we are
PwC’s Operate delivers operational and managed services solutions to clients across a range of situations; bringing together regulatory insight, highly skilled operational resource and an unrivalled technology offering to provide a high quality and cost effective solution to operational delivery challenges.
About the role
PwC’s Operate is seeking to establish an R&D centre to drive technology value as an enablement function, and beyond into products that can be delivered using a strategic platform to drive revenue, efficiencies, speed to market, extensibility and future proofing. The initial markets are Financial Services and Energy however,
- Understanding and documenting the strategic business problem and use cases.
- Owning the strategic architecture and roadmap.
- Identify and evaluate current and future technologies that can be leveraged to drive both strategic and immediate agenda.
- Evangelise and present strategic technologies and best practices to help spread acceptance within the delivery teams and executive management.
- Engage with industrial and academic partners to drive the research agenda and delivery roadmap.
- Own development of the Operate Services Platform.
- Support development of POC’s and MVP.
- Support development of vendor agnostic and proprietary software solutions.
- Provide technology thought leadership.
- Own and input as required programme and project plans.
- Own and input as required to financial planning and budgetary management.
Who we are looking for
The individual needs to be someone with extensive experience, preferably having began their career as a Software Engineer and who has progressed through to a Senior Architect role with a broad range of application, cross platform and full stack technology experience.
Essential Criteria
- Degree in software engineering or a related discipline.
- Significant experience developing software applications.
- Significant experience delivering software architectures.
- Significant experience owning strategic platform architectures and roadmaps.
- Experience understanding and translating business to technical requirements.
- Detailed knowledge of established software development operating models and methodologies including agile, scrum, iterative and waterfall.
- Knowledge of cloud development and operational environments.
- Knowledge of integration architectures and frameworks.
- Knowledge of data and analytics architectures and technology.
- Knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation tools.
- Knowledge of Order to Cash and Service Assurance stacks.
- Broad understanding of security architectures.
- Evidence of programme management and budgetary planning.
- Evidence of team management.
Desirable Criteria
- Financial services and energy sector experience.
- Deep knowledge of workflow automation and robotic process automation using vendor applications such as Decisions, Intapp, Fenergo and others.
- Deep knowledge of data and analytics architectures and platforms.
- Detailed AI based Optical Character Recognition and Natural Language Processing knowledge.
- Strong front end and back end software development skills using C, Java, Python, Angular and others.
- Google, AWS, TOGAF or similar architect accreditation.
- Patent and IP protection procedural knowledge.
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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.
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 and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.