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.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

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.

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.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

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.

About PwC Operate

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 resource 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 business pillars including Financial Crime, Compliance Testing and Customer Management. We have approximately 1,200 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

The Role

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

PwC’s Operate are seeking an experienced Automation/Robotic Process Automation (RPA) developer on a permanent basis to assist the delivery of robotic and intelligent automation solutions across the business. As a Senior Automation Developer you will play a key role in defining and scaling the organisation’s RPA strategy as part of the operational delivery arm of the firm based in Belfast. As such, travel requirements are expected to be minimal.

A career within Operate Technology at PwC provides the opportunity to gain industry recognised technical accreditations in software development and automation while working in a technology-led environment.

You will join a structured training programme and will become an expert in various cutting-edge technologies utilised at PwC. The role offers the opportunity to develop quickly, to see the results of your work and to collaborate with clients throughout projects. As your career progresses, you will be given a degree of flexibility to work on projects that suit your particular interests and skills.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive industry experience, to help our teams and clients solve complex business problems from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include:

• Process assessment and automation
• Understanding business and technical requirements; develop, document, and implement solution designs
• Robotics development including solution architecture
• Coding, testing, debugging, and deployment
• Work with other developers, architects, engineers, database administrators, business analysts, QA and delivery leads in project delivery and solving technical issues
• Hands on delivery of solutions throughout the entire life cycle, including day-to-day management of ongoing engagements
• Ensure that deliverables meet or exceed functional, technical, and performance requirements
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen

Essential:

• A depth of demonstrable experience in an industry-recognised RPA tool such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere etc. OR significant software engineering experience with a desire to transition into RPA.
• Educated to degree level in an IT-related discipline.
• Coding/programming experience in any of the following .NET 3.5 and higher (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET), VBA, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, Google AppsScript etc.
• Experience of agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• Strong analytical skills with experience in problem solving and a proven record of implementing and delivering solutions
• Willingness to expand technical knowledge in a broad range of client-facing projects
• Ability to manage deadlines within multiple projects
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining the ability to work independently with little supervision.

Desirable:

• UiPath and Blue Prism certifications
• Experience of Azure, AWS, GCP
• DevOps experience (CI/CD etc.)
• Scrum Master experience
• Experience of Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Natural Language Process (NLP)

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

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.

About PwC Operate

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 resource 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 business pillars including Financial Crime, Compliance Testing and Customer Management. We have approximately 1,200 people located in our purpose built, secure delivery centre in Belfast; across our regional offices in London, Manchester and Edinburgh; and on a range of client sites.

The Role

A career in Client Implementation and Execution, within Client Service Support services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients transform their customer service and engagements from cost centres into revenue generating businesses across all PwC lines of service. In joining, you’ll help clients develop and implement a customer service and engagement strategy that is aligned with their customer experience strategy, enhancing customer engagement while lowering costs, and optimising operations to ensure they are getting the most value possible.

PwC’s Operate are seeking an experienced Automation/Robotic Process Automation (RPA) developer on a permanent basis to assist the delivery of robotic and intelligent automation solutions across the business. As a Senior Automation Developer you will play a key role in defining and scaling the organisation’s RPA strategy as part of the operational delivery arm of the firm based in Belfast. As such, travel requirements are expected to be minimal.

A career within Operate Technology at PwC provides the opportunity to gain industry recognised technical accreditations in software development and automation while working in a technology-led environment.

You will join a structured training programme and will become an expert in various cutting-edge technologies utilised at PwC. The role offers the opportunity to develop quickly, to see the results of your work and to collaborate with clients throughout projects. As your career progresses, you will be given a degree of flexibility to work on projects that suit your particular interests and skills.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive industry experience, to help our teams and clients solve complex business problems from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include:

• Process assessment and automation
• Understanding business and technical requirements; develop, document, and implement solution designs
• Robotics development including solution architecture
• Coding, testing, debugging, and deployment
• Work with other developers, architects, engineers, database administrators, business analysts, QA and delivery leads in project delivery and solving technical issues
• Hands on delivery of solutions throughout the entire life cycle, including day-to-day management of ongoing engagements
• Ensure that deliverables meet or exceed functional, technical, and performance requirements
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen

Essential:

• A depth of demonstrable experience in an industry-recognised RPA tool such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere etc. OR significant software engineering experience with a desire to transition into RPA.
• Educated to degree level in an IT-related discipline.
• Coding/programming experience in any of the following .NET 3.5 and higher (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET), VBA, HTML, JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, Google AppsScript etc.
• Experience of agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• Strong analytical skills with experience in problem solving and a proven record of implementing and delivering solutions
• Willingness to expand technical knowledge in a broad range of client-facing projects
• Ability to manage deadlines within multiple projects
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining the ability to work independently with little supervision.

Desirable:

• UiPath and Blue Prism certifications
• Experience of Azure, AWS, GCP
• DevOps experience (CI/CD etc.)
• Scrum Master experience
• Experience of Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Natural Language Process (NLP)

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

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.