Cloud Platform Delivery Lead – Azure: Manager

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.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity
As part of the Platform and Integration Architecture team you are expected to develop and design solutions for our clients to address their business needs. As a Manager you are expected to lead teams and manage client accounts, focusing on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff. You are responsible for securing project success and maintaining exceptional standards, while motivating and inspiring others to deliver quality.

Responsibilities
- Develop and design solutions for clients
- Lead teams and manage client accounts
- Focus on strategic planning and mentoring junior staff
- Assure project success and maintain exceptional standards
- Motivate and inspire team members to deliver quality
- Supervise, develop, and coach team members
- Oversee client service accounts and engagement workstreams
- Independently solve and analyze complex problems

What You Must Have
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years of experience
- Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college

What Sets You Apart
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Analytics, Business Analytics preferred

Demonstrates extensive ability to provide end-to-end delivery leadership and technical direction for Azure-based platforms and cloud migration initiatives, including managing delivery across multiple parallel Azure workstreams (e.g., six to seven concurrent workstreams). Demonstrates the ability to make informed technical decisions, identify delivery and execution risks, evaluate trade-offs, and implement mitigation plans in collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders.

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and operate Azure Landing Zone architectures, including management groups, subscriptions, networking, security controls, and policy enforcement. Demonstrates the ability to design and support tenant-as-a-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision secure and compliant Azure environments through standardized, self-service workflows.

Demonstrates extensive ability to lead large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives within Azure environments, including defining and applying migration patterns such as rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring. Demonstrates the ability to manage migration sequencing, cutover strategies, dependency planning, and operational readiness to support stable production outcomes.

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of Azure architecture and hands-on technical execution across services such as virtual networking, identity and access management, Kubernetes services, application platforms, serverless functions, relational and NoSQL databases, and observability tooling. Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, and validate architecture decisions through hands-on technical contribution and technical review.

Demonstrates extensive ability to architect, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based container platforms using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster design, networking, ingress and traffic management, identity integration, autoscaling strategies, and security controls.

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and evolve internal developer platforms that integrate continuous integration and delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes platforms, security controls, and service ownership models. Demonstrates the ability to design and implement workflow orchestration solutions that support tenant provisioning, environment creation, deployment, and platform automation.

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, including reusable workflows and GitOps-based deployment patterns. Demonstrates the ability to define standardized, self-service deployment workflows that support both application and infrastructure delivery while improving consistency and developer productivity.

Demonstrates extensive ability to develop and govern infrastructure as code solutions using tools such as Terraform and native Azure provisioning technologies, including the creation and maintenance of reusable modules.

Demonstrates the ability to enforce infrastructure standards, embed policy and compliance controls, and review code changes to ensure quality, correctness, and adherence to governance requirements.

Demonstrates extensive ability to contribute as a hands-on engineer by developing platform services, automation, and proof-of-concept solutions using programming languages such as Python and Go. Demonstrates the ability to apply engineering best practices, including unit testing, maintainable code design, and disciplined source control practices.

Demonstrates extensive ability to lead and mentor engineering team members by providing technical guidance, coaching, and ongoing feedback. Demonstrates the ability to establish and uphold engineering standards, conduct design and code reviews, and support continuous improvement in technical practices across teams through leadership by example.

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance

As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law. 

PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

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Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines