GCP Cloud Engineering Director

Client: PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable
Management Level: Director 1, 2 & 3
Location: Any city across the US
Workplace: Hybrid/Remote
Open to sponsorships: Yes

Job Description & Summary

 A career in PwC’s Digital and Applications Design practice, within Application and Emerging Technology services,
will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients identify and prioritise emerging technologies that
can help solve their business problems. We help our clients design approaches to integrate new technologies,
skills, and processes so they can get the most out of their technology investment and drive business results and
innovation.
 Our team helps organisations align their business and operational requirements through the careful design of
digital platforms and applications. You’ll help our clients with application optimisation, strategic integration of
custom packaged solutions like Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management, and
roadmap development.
 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.
 As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from
strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not
limited to:
o Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
o Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and
support their long-term aspirations.
o Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
o Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and
environments.
o Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could
apart.
o I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
o Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and
stakeholders.
o Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
o Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Basic Qualifications:
 Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor’s degree
 Minimum Years of Experience: 10 year(s) of demonstrated progression in roles leading IT architecture and
engineering designs and domains; Minimum 5 years of experience building cloud applications on public cloud
infrastructure.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts in Product
Engineering design recommendations, including the following areas:
o Having thought leader level knowledge in architectural design and application delivery in technologies that
include, but are not limited to cloud, mobile, web, APIs/microservices, automation, continuous
integration/continuous deployment, AI/ML and emerging technologies;
 o Evaluating cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation,
deployment, and provisioning applications;
o Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications;
o Leading complex efforts within established Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodologies
(SCRUM, kanban, SAFe and others);
o Leading architectural and engineering reviews of proposed product engineering investments/solutions to
determine the strategic alignment and technical soundness;
o Taking products from concept to implementation with multiple customers;
o Architecting and deploying secure and robust applications in a cloud infrastructure;
o Having thought leader level knowledge of MEAN stack, Hybrid Mobile Apps using Ionic that can scale to
millions of users;
o Leading complex efforts within established Software Development Lifecycle and Agile methodologies
(SCRUM, kanban, SAFe and others);
o Leading architectural and engineering reviews of proposed product engineering investments/solutions to
determine the strategic alignment and technical soundness;
o Providing seasoned advice on application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design,
development, resolution of technical issues, and application rationalization; and,
o Providing architectural and technical direction to multiple products simultaneously.

Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities as a team leader, emphasizing the following areas:
o Working on multiple high priority initiatives with external customers and stakeholders;
o Forecasting resource utilization and capacity and establishing and maintaining a planning process to forecast
project timelines and identify additional resource requirements;
o Fostering and maintaining partnerships with product teams and collaborating to provide technical input to
steer product strategy;
o Using business acumen to interpret and translate goals into technical specifications, delivering thought-
leadership of specific technologies, and driving technology change;
o Advising and influencing leaders on trends that could potentially affect the success of a function or business
area;
o Assembling concepts and communications appropriate for specific audiences at all staff levels within the firm
and with customers;
o Using business and interpersonal skills to build, maintain and influence relationships with senior leaders in IT
and throughout a business;
o Building trusting and influential relationships at all levels and engaging with vendors and third parties;
o Understanding emerging technologies to market these technologies to business leadership and convey
possibilities for new ways of working;
o Promoting a culture of innovation by continuously seeking opportunities for improvement within role,
processes, team and the organisation as a whole; and,
o Working with global teams with mix of company and vendor resources.