PwC Hiring for Internal Firm Services – Technology Lead – Kolkata / Bangalore at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Full Job DescriptionLine of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS – Operations

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

The Innovation Team is at the core of innovation and emerging technology development, discovery, deployment and support activity. Our team is leading the effort to digitally enable our business. Our mission is to develop disruptive & innovative technologies and products that drive the evolution of how we deliver our services now and in the future. The key technology domains we are currently focused on include business process automation, data curation, industrialized analytics, machine learning & AI and scalable delivery platform.

A career in our Innovation Project Management practice, within Innovation Services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients’ redesign, redefine, and redeploy their assurance and/or tax departments to be a strategic asset across the enterprise. You’ll focus on assisting clients as they incorporate increased automation, machine learning, data & analytics, Open Source technologies into their processes to deliver better quality output and contribute more strategically to organisational decision making.

Our team is responsible for strategic market priorities such as improving communication and process improvement initiatives to achieve innovative, optimise d, cost effective, and efficient models for delivering service to our 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.

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:

Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
Initiate open and candid 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.
Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Overview

Identify, develop and manage digital opportunities for PwC Tax LoS by leveraging forward looking technology

Job Description

Activities to be performed:
Work closely with Business to identify opportunities in process and data automation
Create short-term and long-term design
Create solution designs and prototypes
Work on both tactical and strategic initiatives leveraging emerging technology
Identify the right set of technology and create product strategy
Work with business to create and own a continuous delivery plan
Work with business team and key stakeholders to define scope, costs and timelines for updating existing products and implementing new products.
Create sustainable and scalable solutions over the long term for tax stakeholders
Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
Design and Drive the organization from grassroot automation to AI driven solution on sustainable and scalable platform
Drive a culture of innovation
Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring
Set up the organisation & processes to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.
Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.

Requirements

Essential

Must have worked in designing and developing financial solution
At least 12+ years of experience in managing and leading a software engineering team
Strong software development background
Managed platforms
Structured Thinking – Can think clearly under lot of data and make definitive choices along with pros and cons
Industry: Fintech/NBFCs/
Well versed in Software Architecture and Design – should be able to spot flaws in the existing architecture and design.
Work on refactor and re-architecture the code for easier and faster development.
Qualification: BTech
Technology: Has a strong technical knowledge in the following
Intelligent automation
Data Analytics
Full stack development methodology
Microservice architecture
Current technology stack/products to build scalable solutions

Desirable

Exposure to Data lake and Data analytics is highly desirable
Worked in developing Tax technology platforms will be good to have
Product development experience
Exposure to cloud technology, serverless architecture
Worked on Microservices
Product Management, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Technology, Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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