Cloud Platform Delivery Lead - Azure: Manager

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Product Innovation

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

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 work streams

* 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 work streams (e.g., six to seven concurrent work streams). 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,…