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PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
As a member of the team, you’ll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you’ll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Associate, 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:
Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Role Summary:
The role focuses on assisting PwC’s clients to navigate technology change, challenges and opportunities and falls within PwC’s technology consulting and transformation team. PwC’s Technology Consulting team is focused on working with our clients to structure and solve technology and IT related issues and exploit opportunities that unlock business performance.
The Technology Strategy, Transformation and Architecture Consultant forms part of an established team that works with a multitude of clients on activities such as: Architecture baseline and issue definition, simplification and optimisation in the face of business transformation, enterprise technology solution design, IT value delayering, IT strategy definition, cost optimisation and operating model resets.
The role requires exceptional consulting and relationship skills, the ability to assess and design technology architecture at a capability level, knowledge of technology fundamentals such as IT change delivery, cloud architecture infrastructure concepts, DevOps and integration architectures. Beyond this, the ability to operate at the strategic level is critical, as well as the ability to deliver high quality outcomes in an iterative manner, under pressure.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
Bachelor’s degree that has given you an opportunity to grow your problem-solving skills (Computer Science, Informatics, BSc IT, BSc Eng., BEng or relevant technology discipline).
Certifications in TOGAF, Project Management, ITIL or relevant technologies are advantageous, not not required
Experience required:
2-3 years of management or strategic technology consulting experience
Must have a technology background and experience in supporting and communicating with executive leaders and an ability to translate complex technical information into understandable content for the right audience
Strong understanding of information technology topics, as well as general business concepts and terminologies.
IT strategy definition and IT transformation design
Technology solution crafting, design, costing, business case analysis
Operating model design, transformation planning and commercial analysis
Understanding and application of reference architectures, including modern architectural blueprints and trends
Responsibilities of role:
Engage and support a multi-skilled technology consulting team in the delivery of services on delegated client engagements/ projects in order to bring insightful and pragmatic strategic guidance and solutions.
Deliver complex IT strategy, architecture review and design, technology solution design and business case delivery tasks
Investigate, analyze and bring new technologies and techniques to our clients, through innovative engagements, which have the potential to transform and improve their current IT architecture and processes
Assist the technology consulting management team to identify and solve the most important client issues, while outlining opportunities that maximize value by conducting rigorous analysis, creating value and delivering world-class IT capabilities/solutions to support their strategic business needs
Take responsibility to complete analysis, design and transformation planning outcomes across architecture, commercial, strategy, technology solution design, business case and operating model design tasks
Analyse, design and deliver complex IT architecture taks to build insights into operations, diagnose issues and opportunities and outline hypotheses and business cases for architecture transformation
Managing deliverables with self-direction and a commitment to quality.
Build knowledge of, and research the current IT environment and industry IT trends to evolve the Technology Consulting Strategy as and when needed.
Support execution of key projects, including engaging in proposal writing, workshop facilitation sessions and proposal documentation for our clients.
Skill sets required:
A comprehensive understanding of enterprise technology models, architectures, operating model structures, processes, tools and notable trends and challenges
Overview of common development methods and tools, DevOps, Cloud models and key enterprise technology processes
Knowledge of the requirements to managed architectural debt and constant modernisation of the enterprise architecture
Deep understanding of different integration patterns and best practices
Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills.
Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with senior executive-level leaders.
Works independently while keeping management informed.
Ability to elicit requirements in order to document client’s requirements and needs.
Role related attributes:
Team player
Self driven and able to perform tasks with minimal supervision
Strong project delivery experience
Ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
Ability to build relationships and network within the firm locally and globally
Agencies please note: This recruitment assignment is being managed directly by PwC’s Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the rare instance we require additional talent options. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s received will be treated as a direct application. Your respect for this process is appreciated.
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