Business Architect Senior Manager - Global IT

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Job description

A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You'll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth.

The Global People Technology team is responsible for the strategy, support and operational maintenance of our network-wide Human Capital technologies. We support the business-led people strategy by providing an optimised toolset to enable these critical and rapidly evolving processes. Our mission is to be curious trusted advisors who collaborate to deliver simple, personalised experiences for our people.

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 Manager, 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:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.

• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.

• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.

• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.

• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.

• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.

• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.

• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Who we are looking for

Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Working in a global organisation and an understanding of cross cultural communications issues;

• Working across Human Capital technologies, with an understanding of end to end Human Capital business processes;

• Exhibiting superior stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all audiences;

• Proactively managing strategic product roadmaps;

• Driving alignment to established technology standards, practices and processes;

• Collaborating and influencing stakeholders to meet their specific business requirements;

• Consulting with business stakeholders on Human Capital technologies and business processes;

• Displaying customer focus background with strategic thinking capability;

• Building effective relationships with key stakeholders including Global HC stakeholders, PwC IT, territory HC contacts and other customers as appropriate;

• Facilitating and encouraging creativity and forward-thinking suggestions;

• Leading resource and scope planning for complex projects;

• Utilizing a collaborative working style within and across teams at all levels;

• Managing time, workloads, and competing priorities in a proactive manner;

• Providing relevant, accurate and up-to- date information to leadership;

• Partnering with technology and business stakeholders to proactively shape new strategic priorities

• Bridging the gap between business/technology to improve speed/quality of elicitation, documentation, and articulation of requirements.

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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.

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The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

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 because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.