Risk Advisory - Digital – Manager at Deloitte South Africa

Main Purpose of Job

• The main purpose of the job is to support the Senior Manager in delivery of services to / at client premises on delegated engagement / project. Proactively identify client service and technical issues and implement resolutions. Lead, develop and manage the team and share expertise and knowledge. Ability to construct a proposal and all risk processes associated to the pursuit and win business for Deloitte Digital.

Technical competencies:

• Develops effective and sustainable technology strategies by tailoring leading frameworks and models based on key clients’ business and technology needs
• Assesses, designs, and implements holistic and integrated architectures and blue prints that align with client’s business, technology, and security objectives
• Creates design specifications to support the development of data architectures, data models, AI and automation solutions, and integration with other technology and business processes
• Ensures effective implementation of proposed solutions by conducting appropriate testing at each level of software development cycle (e.g., unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing)
• Understands the interaction of business and technology processes / risks and can explain it in business terms to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Is proficient with multiple tools and technologies and is able to effectively integrate them to meet and exceed client’s needs
• Proactively tailors implementation strategies to help ensure client’s environments are receptive to the impending change
• Works with client to build support, remove organisational barriers and acquire the necessary resources to enable effective and sustainable implementations
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated Sales skills
• Proven ability to manage and execute projects
• Experience in drafting and presenting client proposals
• Excellent report writing skills
• Sound business acumen

Behavioural Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Proactive
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Highly analytical and an exponential thinker
• Sound problem-solving ability

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, BSc Honours Computer Science, BSc Maths, Statistics, BEng (all disciplines).
• AWS Certified Solution Architect
• Machine Learning certification
• Masters or PhD degrees in one or more of the following areas: Computer Science, Maths, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, is advantageous.

Experience:

• 7 years’ working experience with 5 years preferably in a client facing role
• 7 years’ Machine learning and AI experience in developing and implementing models
• Excellent experience with Python, AWS, Angular, Java Script
• Kubernetes and Kafka experience
• Must have consulting experience