PwC South Africa is a prominent professional services firm providing industry-focused assurance, advisory, tax, and legal services to public, private, and government clients.
The role requires some-one who can design and development of an analytical solutions / apps in addition to managing the product.
The ability to rapidly code functional prototypes, review code and develop marketing materials is an advantage.
Product managers must be able to interface with several stakeholder groups including our consulting partners, business analysts, other product managers, and our development teams.
Management consulting experience in strategy and analytics. Familiarity with approaches of applying data and analytics to solve questions of business strategy for clients.
Storytelling – building storyboards and other presentations targeted at senior business audience. Could be in PowerPoint or other presentation media (videos, interactive presentations, etc)
Experience with release planning and roadmap creation; proven track record for deploying high quality products.
Ability to be able to create competitive analyses for potential products, drive appropriate approaches and develop preliminary business cases – refining them all as emergent information arises.
Articulate and passionate verbal communicator – comfortable communicating with all of our stakeholders (partners, consultants & clients).
Knowledge and Experience
Some knowledge or experience in each of the three areas below is valuable.
Flexible mind-set and comfort with multi-tasking. You will be exposed to different products, and your role may change rapidly given shifting product priorities and resource needs.
3+ years of broad technology expertise in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
3+ years of progressive hands-on technical experience as well as 3+ years of full life-cycle software development experience including leading multi discipline development teams.
Ability to grasp a range of functional and non-functional requirements to understand the application scope to define the right architecture including solution components and the interactions
Experience with data architecture, data modeling and relational databases.
Experience with Hadoop, NoSQL and other Big Data technologies will be considered a plus.
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