Data Architect - Senior Manager - Consulting

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Job description

PwC is one of the world's leading professional services organisations and a trusted adviser to some of the largest organisations around the world, spanning the public, private, and financial sectors. The increasing availability and use of data requires all of these organisations to adapt quickly or face irrelevance. As part of our data strategy we are transforming and expanding our D&A team and are looking for keen, innovative, driven data architect to join us as part of this exciting opportunity
PwC's Data & Analytics is a well established team of data strategists, architects, scientists, and engineers who help client teams harness the power of information to drive insight, optimise business performance and commercialise data opportunities.

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies

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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Diversity

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, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
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As a Senior Manager at PwC, you will solve important problems, intelligently applying data rchitect solutions to reshape our client's businesses. You'll help embed data and analytics in our Consulting approach and drive change through digital transformation.

Through leading teams of data specialists and building trusted relationships with business stakeholders, you'll create compelling business strategies advising the most senior members of Fortune 500 organisations. You'll add value to our clients through identifying and delivering benefits which are sustainable. You lead small teams or large transformational programmes, working closely with some of the top minds in their field and supporting the development of other analytics specialists learning their craft.

Key responsibilities

• Taking a lead role in designing and scoping interesting data programmes to address complex client problems from strategy to execution.
• A senior manager will lead multiple workstreams or projects with multi-disciplinary teams of data specialists, strategists, experience consultants and technology gurus. Inspiring them to deliver great client outcomes through complex strategy-led and technology-led transformation programmes;
• Building and maintaining deep and long-lasting relationships with senior stakeholders
• Develop new business and revenue streams through embedding advanced data and analytics use cases in wider business transformation propositions, supporting market development activities;
• Contribute to internal innovation for data and digital assets: visioning and leading new, creative ideas and concepts through to fruition for PwC to reuse and commercialise in the market.
• Intellectual curiosity - keeping up to date with the fast pace of change of data methodologies and technologies
• Being a "data influencer" - leading on data thought leadership with colleagues across the firm, bringing an awareness of the latest techniques and technologies;
• Caring passionately about the progression of the team working with and reporting to you: developing their technical competence and shaping their career paths;
• Overseeing and being accountable for the performance of new and existing projects, programmes, contributing to sales activities, staffing, quality, risk and commercial management

Requirements

As a senior data architect, you will design technical data-driven solutions for our clients. You will supervise the implementation of those data-driven solutions, and ensure the enterprise strategic vision is met. You will function as a technical leader, making sure that the data architecture under your watch is secure and sustainable. You will work to develop data integration strategies while showcasing extensive experience in data management.

You will be able to demonstrate the ability to manage large, cross functional project teams and inspire others to solve problems, under pressure, end-to-end with data.

Essential requirements for this role:

• Educated to degree level BSc/MSc/PHD in - for example - Computer Science, Business Information, Mathematics, Engineering or other STEM.
• A strong team player with empathy, humility and dedication to joint success and shared development;
• Candidates must have significant practical project experience (professional, academic or personal) in lead data architect roles, able to demonstrate the following skills:
  • Full lifecycle experience of scoping, managing and delivering data architecture solutions on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, GCP or similar)- leading teams of data architects, data visualisation developers and data engineers to create modeling solutions which drive value;
  • Strong commercial awareness through a deep understanding of business issues in specific sector, wider market trends and how data modelling can be used to develop sustainable value for the business;
  • Experience of product or tech selection at project / enterprise level - able to clearly and confidently articulate the return on investment and benefits of each vendor to client stakeholders;
  • Knowledgeable on the relevance and importance of data governance, data lineage, data quality, and master data management to data architecture in a modern data platform;
  • A track record of delivering quality engagements for clients whilst establishing and growing productive partnerships with internal or external clients;

Technical skills required:

• Design expertise in core data architecture disciplines including data modelling (proficient in at least one data modelling tool e.g. Erwin), metadata management, data migration and master data management
• Well versed in data architecture approaches to ingest, model and serve data from various sources including ERP (Oracle, SAP etc.), CRM (Salesforce, etc.) and HR systems (Workday etc) including
• Practical knowledge of core data ETL and visualisation skills- for example using non structured and structured storage and database solutions native to the cloud providers, ETL tools (e.g. Snaplogic, Alteryx) & PowerBI/Tableau/Qlik
• Advanced technical skills, in one or more of the following areas: Master Data Management tools such as Informatica, writing API specs in JSON and integrating with tools such as MuleSoft.

Subject matter expertise:

Proven experience in applying data architecture tools and techniques in at least one of the following areas:

• Enterprise wide data architecture and modeling
• Business tooling based architecture and modelling (CRM, ERP) and integration architecture for data across heterogeneous applications
• Reporting on Data Analytical architecture and modelling

"Nice to have" skills for this role:

• Experience in Agile delivery and Agile techniques, such as Scrum and Kanban
• Certifications in Data Architecture (e.g. TOGAF / Cloud Certifications)
• Experience working with clients to develop data strategies for business transformation, such as designing a Data/Analytics Operating model, Information Governance organisation, or exploring the shift to cloud native 3rd party solutions

Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

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..... click apply for full job details