Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Information Technology (IT)

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

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.

Our System Architecture team helps build customisable specific system solutions that enhance PwC’s system capabilities to appropriately serve all client needs. As part of the team, you’ll use enterprise architecture across application areas to build delivery models that map PwC capabilities to business needs outlined by clients.

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.

General Purpose:

The Client Engagement Manager (CEM) will join a team responsible for delivering our cloud optimisation service to the PwC network of firms.  The CEM is responsible to ensure that our clients’ applications performance and availability are maintained or improved - while driving cost efficiencies.  The cloud optimisation service is an optional service provided to our network of firms.  For this reason, the CEM will rely strongly on relationship and influencing skills.  Clients of our service must have trust in confidence in the service we provid that team that delivers these services.

 

Functions and responsibilities: 

Engage with IT, business and financial teams across the PwC network who have an interest in the optimisation of their cloud usage.

Explain our service and its objectives to prospective clients - with the necessary confidence and conviction to build immediate interest and trust in our service.

Establish a plan for the client on how they will deliver value through our service - including how we will define success

Actively engage in client on-boarding and training activities.  

Have sufficient technical depth and breadth in cloud services to be able to recommend the best technical course of action for the client - engaging with our core technical cloud optimisation team and other technical SME’s across PwC.  The CEM must be technically self-sufficient to address most client optimisation situations. 

Possess reasonable technical depth in both Azure and AWS cloud services.

Work with the client and our optimization technology core team to develop and deploy dashboards, alerts and reports that will provide visibility to optimization opportunities across the client’s cloud estate. 

Professionally challenge clients in situations where they are declining or reluctant to approve recommended and safe optimisation actions.

Persistently advocate for your customer’s needs. Provide feedback and actively drive improvements in our service that will improve the quality of our service; improve customer satisfaction and drive greater success for our service. 

FinOps experience is highly desirable.

Preferred skills

Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Engineering or a related fieldAdvanced English level.

Minimum years experience required

5 years in a similar role

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Optional Skills

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Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

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