Technology Solution Architect | Manager | Advisory Consulting - Dublin

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Technology Strategy

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

PwC Ireland - Bring Your Experience, Grow Your Skills, Unlock Your Potential

We are a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to deliver sustained outcomes and build trust.

We are Senior Technology and Digital leads, experienced in scoping, and delivering large transformation programmes, in leading senior partners in complex matrix environments.

About PwC Technology Consulting

At PwC, we recognise the opportunities that can be achieved when we embrace what technology has to offer. Our Technology Consulting team are dedicated to leveraging technology in order to solve complex business problems for our clients. We work with Ireland’s largest organisations across a wide range of industries including financial services, healthcare industry and the public sector. With PwC, you will get the opportunity to work with clients along the entire technology lifecycle, from developing IT strategy through to system implementation.

Purpose-led work you’ll be part of

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of solutions-driven and problem-solving individuals, apply your technology experience and stakeholder management, to drive forward projects and programmes from strategy to execution.

You’ll be responsible for conceptualising and designing robust and scalable technical solutions that enable our clients’ strategic objectives and support their long term growth goals. You will work closely with Business and Technology architects on a variety of engagements across industry sectors to develop  Business and IT Strategies, IT / Architecture Assessments, Business and Solution Blueprinting and Solution Design engagements.  

We differentiate ourselves with our meticulous focus and collaborative working style to deliver the highest quality work products. Our Solution Architects should be proficient in Consulting and Architecture fundamentals.

You will work with your team to:

• Provide Solution architecture and delivery skills and experience, including broad understanding of business, data, application and technology architecture domains (Applications, Infrastructure, Integration, Security, Data etc) 

• Collaborate with the  Business Architects to create and maintain strategic roadmaps, principles, standards and reference architectures

• Work with IT executives to define, understand and document the IT strategy and desired IT capabilities, iterate new IT capabilities into the future state technology architecture in support of the business strategy

• Maintain the technical architecture structure from business capability to applications to data

• Provide deep technical knowledge and guide Project Architects to ensure compliance with enterprise and functional area strategic roadmaps

• Ensure interoperability across functional domains

• Collaborate with the Projects and Programmes to develop programme/project level requirements

• Monitor projects for compliance with the technical architecture

• Align with Portfolio Management and verify budget and resource commitment to support roadmaps (via architecture dependencies and prioritisation) 

• Establish strong working relationships with senior business, technology and change management, in the capacity of a trusted advisor on Architecture matter

• Communicate the practical implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to senior business stakeholder, technical delivery and IT management.

• Identify and promote opportunities for cross-business sharing / re-use of application components, rationalise of application portfolios and integrated architectures

• Establish strategic alliances, and leads joint ventures with key IT suppliers and business partners

• Awareness or design and delivery experience across some of the following technologies: Omnichannel Technologies (such as Amazon Connect), CRM (Salesforce / Microsoft Dynamics), Oracle Fusion / SAP S4/HANA /Workday, Finance Management, Cloud (Microsoft Azure/AWS/GCP), Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, ServiceNow, uiPath Task Mining and Celonis Process Mining, Global Risk Compliance (GRC) platforms, Wider knowledge of secure design principles, services, controls and data ETL

Your Profile

• Develop and lead high impact Technology Consulting project proposals, developing detailed project scope, deliverables and work plans.

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above

• Be involved in the financial management of clients

• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients

• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical competence

• Develop strategies to tackle sophisticated technical challenges

• Participate in providing technology assessments in support of automation and technology migration initiatives.

• Experience in documenting and socialising your solution design and conducting review and challenge sessions.

• Experience leading client, vendor/service provider and other customer communications

• A broad understanding across all architecture domains with an in depth knowledge of one or more architecture domain e.g. application, data, integration or infrastructure would be beneficial

• Mentoring junior team members and running day to day activities of the team.

• Identifying new opportunities and solutions

Unlock your potential with PwC Ireland

We believe that challenges are better solved together! We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of amazing teams encouraged to collaborate and innovate in a way that creates powerful solutions and makes a positive impact. This purpose-led work, and our continuous development and encouragement, will help unlock your potential and take your career to the next level.

Enjoy PwC’s perks

We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive employee benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about us at Life@PwC. (https://www.pwc.ie/careers-ie/life-at-pwc.html).

Being appreciated for being you

Our most valuable asset is our people and we grow stronger as we learn from one another. We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  We believe this so much that we have signed up for the Business in the Community Elevate Pledge. (https://www.bitc.ie/the-leaders-group-on-sustainability/inclusive-workplace-pledge/)

You can learn more about our culture of belonging and explore our range of inclusive programmes, initiatives, employee resource groups and more at www.pwc.ie.

Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply, we’d love to hear from you!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please email us at ie_experiencedhireteam@pwc.com for more information.

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Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

No

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