The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.
A career in our Tax Technology Innovation practice, within Innovation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients’ tax departments redesign, redefine, and redeploy tax to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You’ll focus on assisting clients incorporate increased automation in the tax reporting process, increase analytic capabilities through data integration, and create solid internal controls that will enable the Tax function to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.
Our team develops complex software capabilities leveraging the latest in technology to meet today’s hard business problems. You’ll focus on providing highly customisable platforms across the tax practice through research, development, and integration to build adaptable enterprise capabilities. It’s our mission to identify, apply and drive innovation through the application of ground-breaking and unique technologies to set PwC apart from the competition.
Who We Are
PwC is the leading professional services firm and the forefront of an exciting transformational journey. In the UK, our legal practice is fully integrated into the PwC partnership and our vision is to harness the expertise of the firm to provide end-to-end, technology-enabled services to meet our clients’ needs.
Our team is a multi-disciplinary technology unit in the Tax and Legal space. We are comprised of Architects, Developers, DevOps, Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Testers, Machine Learning mathematicians, D&A software programmers & Tax / Legal SMEs.
Responsibilities
As a Software Architect you will be:
Responsible for technical aspect of the products
Defining technology direction
Designing overall architecture of the system
Designing or reviewing vendor’s designs of critical part of the system
Defining coding standards, and reviewing code of critical part of the system
Ensuring that all non-functional requirements are met
Improving DevOps based environment
Co-operate with Product Owner, Developers, Testers
Researching and coding prototypes
Requirements
Extensive experience in software development in .NET technology stack
Proficiency in programming languages: C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, T-SQL
Knowledge of distributed enterprise systems concepts and design ( scalability, reliability, security, disaster recovery)
Knowledge of design patterns (messaging patterns, DDD, REST, CQRS, microservices)
Experience with Azure cloud
Experience in projects managed by Agile methodologies
Knowledge of Node.js and its ecosystem
Knowledge of one of web application framework: Angular, React, Vue
Basic understanding of mobile technology
Basic understanding of Machine Learning methods and how to apply them
Tax
We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.
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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.
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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.
Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity