Consulting - Technology - Cloud Architecture

**Description**:
Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

**PwC Global Overview**
At PwC, we measure success by our ability to create the value that our clients and our people are looking for. Our reputation lies in building lasting relationships with our clients and a focus on delivering value in all we do. We’re a network of firms in 157 countries with more than 208,000 people who are committed to delivering world-class capabilities and quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.

**PwC Middle East Overview**
Established in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 4,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

**Line of Service Overview**
In Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best across industry and professional functional advisory services. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep industry expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our Consulting practice currently focuses on several core industry sectors including (Consumer and Industrial Products & Services, Energy, Utilities & Mining, Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisations, and Technology).

**Role Overview**

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Understand client’s current business capabilities, assess current Technology environment, Cloud Services, current challenges, future needs, conduct end-to-end assessment of current IT Infrastructure and Cloud tech stack to identify the gaps and possible IT interventions that can be planned for sustained performance improvement
- Understand current IT Infrastructure, Data center and network infrastructure architecture.
- Collect and compile qualitative and quantitative research from internal and external sources to gain insights into customers and stakeholders’ expectations, preferences, and behaviors
- Define short term, medium term and long-term objectives/goals for the client organization along with key metrics to evaluate the improvement
- Create a cloud adoption strategy, Operating model and migration roadmap.
- Develop solution design and architecture for Hybrid, Private and Public cloud environments.
- Work closely with the security team to align security requirements in the proposed solution.
- Respond to technical queries/issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Assess, plan and design infrastructure movement/migration requirements to/from Cloud.
- Facilitate collaborative and interactive multi-stakeholder workshops to identify gaps and support in building consensus.
- Collect business, customer, technology and regulatory trends / issues, and develop insights for the client
- Identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)/ Performance Measurement Parameters for Cloud Services and solutions
- Work with various PwC x-LoS teams to develop requested market/technology perspectives
- In reference to Program Management Initiatives, carry out project management, activity and schedule management, issue tracking and resolution, status reporting and monitoring, service Level Agreement (SLA) monitoring.
- Share lessons learned and best practices across programs, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels.
- Coordination of project Governance arrangements, Post Project Reviews, Programme level workshops.
- Support Business Development activities including proposal developments, client presentations

**Educational Qualifications**:

- Graduation: BE/B. Tech/MCA or equivalent
- Post-Graduation: MBA/PGDM (Desirable)

**Certifications**:
Having one or more of the following certifications will be an added advantage:

- Cloud Architect Certification from AWS/Azure/Google
- IT Infrastructure certification from leading OEMs
- TOGAF (Desirable)
- ITIL (Desirable)

**Experience**:

- Minimum 7 Years of relevant