Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Advisory - Other

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in integration and platform architecture focus on designing and implementing seamless integration solutions and robust platform architectures for clients. They enable efficient data flow and optimise technology infrastructure for enhanced business performance.

Those in solution architecture at PwC will design and implement innovative technology solutions to meet clients' business needs. You will leverage your experience in analysing requirements, developing technical designs to enable the successful delivery of solutions.

Solution Architect (Senior Manager)

PwC Solution Architects are responsible for establishing the technical vision, direction and solution approach for our digital solutions, and work with our Tech Leads and developers (both onshore/offshore) to turn the vision into reality with an on-time and quality delivery.  Solution Architects support concept development, architecture and design planning/estimation, and work with Product Managers to drive product development as a critical member of a product leadership team. Solution Architects are expected to have previous solution architecture, application architecture expertise along with full stack development experience utilizing agile development techniques/methodologies. 


A Solution Architect will:

Solution products/applications with a web-based systems architecture following microservices, event-driven enterprise application architecture patterns 

Provide and communicate unified technical vision for software products and breaks down vision into tangible tasks for developers

Lead by demonstration of technical expertise (i.e. hands-on) across full technology stack (front-end, back-end, data modeling, 3rd party  integration)

Manage performance of offshore and onshore developers through effective task breakdown,  management, prioritization, and alignment of work to resource capabilities

Scale team productivity by decomposing user stories and features into individual units of work

Directly contribute with written code and provides code reviews to ensure adherence to solution design

Design solutions with appropriate data architecture, data modeling and data management considerations across relational, columnar and NoSQL

Design solutions with appropriate considerations for advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics

Participate in the cost estimation process by recommending the skills and numbers of developers required, and by performing effort estimation given product requirements

Coordinate with customer, product team disciplines (e.g. UX/UI, DevOps, QA) and other product-related teams to build, test, and deploy software products 

Identify technical risks and and proactively address issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules

Understand and apply agile software development techniques/methodologies to effect continuous quality improvement across people and processes

Maintain responsibility for the quality and viability of software engineering deliverables by providing recommendations on technical solutions including design, build/buy decisions, open-source tooling, etc.

Collaborate with Product Management, and other Tech Leads to define the design, development, and support toolsets and processes to improve the overall efficacy of product teams

Providing direction and guidance, hands-on development support, code review, development oversight, and support to successfully deliver on time with quality

Contributing to ongoing process and methodology improvements; and, establishing architecture governance with compliance of technology solutions with architectural patterns and standards. 

 
Minimum Year(s) of Experience: At least 18+ years of experience in software development with at least 5+ years in application architecture and solution architecture, leading developers in delivery of software products.  

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s Degree

Degree Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field


Knowledge Preferred

Demonstrates intimate knowledge and/or a proven record of success in modern software engineering approaches, technologies, and tools:

Cloud-ready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for Azure or  AWS;

Event-driven and microservices architectures;

Big Data / Analytics / AI tools;

DevOps - virtualization, automation, continuous integration;

Mobile/Web architecture stacks;

Polyglot Persistence - RDBMS/NoSQL data stores (SQLServer, Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase) and appropriate use cases;

Rapid-prototyping workflows & development tools;

Core: Java;

Languages: Typescript, HTML/CSS, Javascript;

Frameworks/Libraries: Angular;

Databases: NoSQL (mongo, neo4j, firebase), relational (mySQL, postgres), SQL Server, Oracle; 

Configuration Management (optional): Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform;

Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, GraphQL

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes or any other related AWS.

Should have experience in GenAI development/integration with the application.

Skills Preferred

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

Communicating, verbally and written, with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve product engineering objectives;

Leading across all aspects of a technology solution - integration, data, services, front-end, back-end, network, deployment, scaling, security, performance, development, etc.;

Managing rapid-prototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies leveraging agile development techniques;

Designing successful technical/integration architectures for large-scale platforms with a mix of 3rd party vendor, open-source, custom software, including the documentation of technical assumptions and decisions;

Contributing and managing incubators/innovation lab environments, and working with small teams across a variety of new and emerging technologies;

Working in an environment that leverages project management skills like planning and tracking, issue and risk management, multitasking, team organization, and activity prioritization; and, 

Developing front-end, back-end, and/or systems administration applications with strong proficiency in scripting language (Angular, Java).

Provide solution hand-off and training for the new features to Operations and Production Support teams

 
 

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Architectural Engineering, Brainstorm Facilitation, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Business Process Modeling, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Systems, Business Value Analysis, Cloud Strategy, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Analysis, Conducting Research, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), Feasibility Studies {+ 46 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date