Cloud Data Architect Senior Manager

About the role

We are seeking an accomplished Cloud Data Architect Senior Manager, to join our Data engineering, Reporting and Analytics practice, a core part of our Technology, Data & Analytics business unit. Our Technology, Data & Analytics is the largest single group of technologists within PwC, with 400 people working across the UK. We help clients solve important problems as they transform their businesses through the use of technology and use data, helping them to drive decisions and provide services to their customers.

You'll be joining our Data engineering, Reporting and Analytics practice, a core part of our Technology, Data & Analytics business unit. We support our clients in delivering a variety of transformation projects across the commercial sector from defining data strategies to helping architect, design and implement modern data and analytics solutions using the latest cloud technologies.

We work with prestigious clients including FTSE100 companies, mid market clients and government agencies. We offer a varied range of experiences, a supportive team and an exciting career working in technology, data and analytics. This role will provide you with an opportunity to work across a portfolio of clients, with a focus on large and complex organisations in the Commercial sector.

What your days will look like:

• Overseeing the architecting and delivery of data transformation projects with clients.
• Working with clients to design the right architectural patterns for their use-cases business needs, which may include the designing of solutions such as a data lake or lakehouse
• Assisting clients in the selection of the right technology for their future data architecture which could include the core data platform, pipeline architecture and governance tooling.
• Oversight and leadership of data transformation projects from a technical perspective to ensure the right solution is implemented with the correct controls and quality.
• Building and managing client relationships including with C-level staff, Heads of Data and Analytics, IT and Data Architects and other business stakeholders during the lifecycle of a project

This role is for you if:

You have 5-8 years of hands on data architecture experience that includes;

• Cloud based data lakes and data platform solutions with the likes of Databricks, Azure, AWs or Snowflake.
• Data modeling - the ability to design and implement data models from conceptual through to physical which could include slowly changing dimensions or single customer views
• Experience in the various approaches to ingest data (ETL vs ELT) from different sources such as direct connect and API's
• Experience in designing the infrastructure elements of a cloud platform including the setup and implementation of DevOps, networking and security elements.
• Strong business acumen in relation to Analytics, having had experience within at least one business area function (e.g Marketing, Sales, Finance, Workforce, Procurement etc.).