Product & Innovation Engineering - Senior Manager

Specialty/Competency: Product Innovation

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 60%

A career in Software and Product Innovation will provide you with the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions that are valuable, usable, and aligned with accomplishing the company's mission. We help build software and design data platforms, manage large volumes of client data, develop compliance procedures for data management, and continually research new technologies to drive innovation and sustainable change. You will manage products through initial launch and follow-on releases, identifying dependencies and clearing blockers.

As part of our Product Management team, you'll focus on product strategy, planning, roadmap, and execution to deliver value proposition by defining product requirements, specifications, product timeline, pricing, and go-to-market activities.

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 an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. 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 Senior Manager, 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:

• Take action to ensure everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all.

• Establish the root causes of issues and tackle them, rather than just the symptoms.

• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.

• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.

• Develop specialised expertise in one or more areas.

• Advise stakeholders on relevant technical issues for their business area.

• Navigate the complexities of global teams and engagements.

• Build trust with teams and stakeholders through open and honest conversation.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required

Bachelor's Degree

Additional Educational Requirements

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.

Minimum Year(s) of Experience

7 year(s)

Degree Preferred

Master's Degree

Preferred Fields of Study

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,Business Application Programming,Computer Applications,Computer and Information Science,Computer Systems Analysis,Computer Engineering,Computer Management,Computer Programming,Computer Systems Analysis,Data Processing/Analytics/Science,Game Design,Information CyberSecurity,Information Technology,Management Information Systems,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Industrial Engineering,Internet Technology,Management of Technology,Software App,Systems Engineering,Systems Engineering & Accounting,Web Design,Webmaster and Web Management,Engineering and Business

Certification(s) Preferred

AWS (or) Azure (or) GCP Specialized Certifications

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrates intimate-level abilities and knowledge and/or a proven record of success with utilizing the following software development languages, platforms, and/or tools::

• Java 8 or Python design and development;

• Application frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud;

• Microservices REST API and Event Driven Design ;

• Knative, Docker (Docker compose, yamls, etc) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, AKS, EKS etc. );

• Kafka, Apache NiFi is highly preferred; and,

• Database design, creation, manipulation and query of Relational, and NoSQL datastores. Demonstrates intimate-level abilities and knowledge and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Designing and developing large scale distributed data processing systems/applications or large scale internet systems utilizing Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript etc. ;

• Developing and maintaining Knative, Docker and Kubernetes deployments using yamls, HELM, Kube-operators;

• Possessing experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana;

• Creating Web User Interface (UI) with use of recent javascript libraries like HTML5, JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS);

• Working with Agile Methodologies and developing code using object oriented design, implementation and maturation to take advantage of the language feature sets;

• Teaching, mentoring, growing, and providing advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams in their sub-department;

• Understanding of the full scope of the project required that this team is responsible for and can delegate tasks in an effective manner;

• Having the profound view of the project development and suggesting industry-leading ways to develop having in mind the final market goal;

• Identifying proactively opportunities to reuse or generalize existing services and product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration;

• Solving technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for their sub-department;

• Interfacing with EMs above and enables Staff Engineers to engage on department-level aspects of larger (sub-department wide) initiatives;

• Looking for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to confront boldly problems of large complexity and scope; and,

• Proposing initial technical implementation that supports architectural changes to solve scaling and performance problems.

Learn more about how we work: /pwc. to/how-we-work

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: /pwc. to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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