Line of Service
Advisory
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Deals
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Deals Advanced Analytics practice, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients with the deal process and deliver outstanding services both pre-deal and post-deal from the perspective of mergers and acquisitions data analysis.
A career in PwC's Capital Projects and Infrastructure Technology department is an opportunity to bring PwCs strategy to life by developing and delivering technology and data-powered services in one of the fastest growing sectors in the region. Our clients expect us to bring the right people and the right technology to solve their biggest problems; we meet that challenge and accelerate the adoption of disruptive solutions through our integrated team of specialists. We have skilled technologists, engineers, data scientists, business analysts and industry subject matter experts who come together to innovative and deliver across the Capital Projects and Infrastructure value chain.
Having a sector-focus, our projects span the technology and data spectrum. We are therefore recruiting for senior technology and data leaders who can adapt to client demands, adapt and apply themselves to the following domains:
- Digital and data strategy and transformation
- Digital solution ideation, conceptualization, architecting and design
- Development of business and functional requirements and specifications
- Development of use cases and business cases for data engineering and data
science
- Data warehousing and enterprise architecture development/implementation
- Data management and DataOps design and implementation/execution
- Business intelligence reporting design and implementation/execution
Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will develop your understanding of the themes and trends in the market, with access to the key client accounts in the region. You will work collaboratively with other experts to shape the future of our clients and to bring about positive change. In particular, it will be expected that the role includes the following:
- Oversight of technical project delivery, including work output and quality
management, client management, project planning, risk management, scope
management and schedule and budget management.
- Working to mentor and train other members of the business unit and the project team in order to foster a high performance team environment.
- Contribution to innovation and insights on each project, proposal, proposition or proof of concept through leveraging existing commercial off-the-shelf solutions and driving the development of new technology and/or analytical solutions.
- Ownership of business development efforts (both internal and external) through building and leveraging relationships, co-developing propositions and being active in the market.
- Management of responding to RFPs, including scope and budget development, pitch preparation and pitch delivery.
- Collaborating with colleagues in PwC's Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives as well as with international teams where appropriate and keeping up to date with current trends from the region and from across the world.
- Strategizing and managing relationships with technology vendors and service
providers, undertaking product evaluations and negotiating contractual terms.
As a client advisor and service delivery leader, it is expected that the candidate will have excellent communication skills, stakeholder management skills, presentation skills, the ability to conceptualize and translate client needs into tangible solutions and to move easily from big picture thinking to managing relevant detail.
PwC Middle East operates as a regional practice and, accordingly, the candidate is expected to have the ability and willingness to travel within the region.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
The following professional qualifications (or equivalent) would be beneficial to the
candidate:
- DAMA's Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
- PMI's Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certifications
Although the role will be focused on delivery oversight rather than performing technical
delivery, it would be beneficial if the candidate had experience of performing technical
delivery at some stage of their career. The following are platforms and/or skillsets that are
applied within our practice and it would be beneficial if the candidate was familiar with or
had a conceptual understanding of them:
- Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure
- Relational databases, SQL, T-SQL or PL/SQL
- Data aggregators such as DataBricks, Azure DataFactory, Palantir, Snowflake or
Teradata and streaming/messaging services such as Kafka
- Data Modeling and Schema design and development
- Big data platforms including Hadoop, BigQuery/BigTable, Map/Reduce
- NoSQL databases (e.g. CosmosDB, MongoDB, DocumentDB, Cloud Datastore,
Casandra, etc.)
- Data Integration Tools (SSIS, Informatica, API Management, Enterprise Service Bus)
and Rules Engine (e.g BizTalk)
- Programming and scripting languages including C++, C#, Java, Python, R
- Construction sector tools including Autocad, Primavera, MS Project and
understanding of BIM models and aggregator tools such as Ares Prism.
- Data visualisation tools including PowerBI, Tableau or QlikView
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Bachelor Degree - Computer Science
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship
Government Clearance Required
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