D&TT - Cloud Advisory - Manager

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Job description

Companies stand or fall by their technology and you'll work with clients in all industries, from finance and retail to manufacturing and energy who share this belief. What they all have in common is an understanding that future success comes from embracing the most advanced technology - and building their organisations around it.

By joining PwC's Technology Consulting team, your clients will be looking to you to help them define their journey - generating insights to illuminate innovative ideas, creating amazing experiences for customers, achieving huge cost savings or embracing new collaborative mindsets.

And you'll be doing it as part of one of the most awarded, innovative and ambitious teams in the industry. We're recognised as leaders and have alliance relationships with major technology providers - including AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP - as well as for our expertise in cloud, cyber security, data and analytics, and RPA.

Digital & Cloud Technology Transformation
You'll be joining our Digital & Cloud Transformation practice to work on the biggest and most challenging transformations powered by leading cloud applications, cloud platforms and cloud infrastructure. Our cloud strategists and architects help our clients define their strategy and roadmap for their journey to the cloud, and help them execute this journey implementing technology, redefining experiences and driving changes in people and ways of working. As part of the team, your clients will trust you to help them drive a commercial return on their investment in cloud technologies and help them to confidently become agile and innovative digital businesses.

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.

This is an opportunity to join an exciting and fast growing Cloud Advisory practice in which we are looking for Thought Leaders, Advisory Strategists, Chief Technologists, Multi-Cloud & Hybrid solutioners, Application Modernisation Evangelists, Cloud consultants and Architects to join our Cloud team which is a key growing area within PwC Technology Consulting. We are responsible for defining multi-cloud strategy and architecting modernisation by setting out the roadmap journey to the cloud, implementing application roadmaps, migration,optimisation and future operating models to address some of the biggest and most complex digital enablement transformations powered by the Cloud. As a trusted advisor you will enable our clients transformation to become agile and for them to be an innovative digital business.

The Responsibilities

• Become a trusted advisor to our clients and help them connect their Cloud strategies to their business and IT strategies;

• Understand our clients strategic needs, short and long-term business objectives and then articulate and formulate proposals and statements of work which are aligned to our cloud solutions;

• Participate in envisioning future industry trends and strategic technology domain solutions that will differentiate PwC in the Cloud Advisory Market;

• Building and maintaining relationships with and advising various levels of stakeholders, up to and including C-Level;

• Assist in defining in the Cloud Advisory portfolio of offerings and continually seek opportunities to develop business;

• Contribute to external eminence of PwC and the Cloud Advisory Practice through talks, presentations, conferences and seminars as a Cloud advocate;

• Drive professional development of all Cloud Advisory team members;

• It just doesn't stop at Cloud. We are keen for our team members to draw on deep industry expertise, insights and experience in areas like IoT, Edge Computing, Blockchain, AI, RPA and other upcoming disruptive technologies which will help our clients whether they have started their journey to the Cloud or who are already there but not envisaged with their investments.

The Person

We are looking for Managers and Senior Managers who are intellectually curious with a genuine passion for finding and implementing innovative Cloud solutions that will assist our clients with large scale enterprise wide cloud transformations. Ideally you'll have the following:

• Have a strong understanding of multi-cloud strategies and architectures;

• Proven track record shaping cloud advisory propositions that has been successfully executed in the market and building future opportunities;

• Being proactive and driven learning new emerging cloud capabilities and other disruptive technologies;

• Experience of engagements within the Hyperscale Cloud Market (AWS, Azure, GCP);

• Worked in advisory / leadership roles at a consulting, professional services, cloud provider or leading IT vendors;

• Experience with hands on design and implementation on platforms including at least one of: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and open source environments;

• Relevant cloud certifications with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Redhat)

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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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'.
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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.