A career in Products and Technology would provide you the opportunity to be part of an organization that is building a leading tech experience that solves big challenges for our firm and our clients. Our products and tech-driven solutions are how we move faster, cut through complexity and fuel growth. We start with the problem and solve it with experience and tech know-how. Our skilled technologists, data scientists, product managers and business strategists are passionate about using technology to accelerate change.

Our external facing team is responsible for designing and executing against the product road map, working with product and customer functions to identify business and technical features and requirements for our clients. Our team focuses on leading 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 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 an Associate, 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:

• Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
• Share and collaborate effectively with others.
• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
• Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner – verbally and in the materials I produce.
• Build and maintain an internal and external network.
• Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Our team is responsible for designing and executing against the product road map, working with product and customer functions to identify business and technical features and requirements. Our team focuses on leading product strategy, planning, roadmap, and execution to deliver value proposition by defining product requirements, specifications, product timeline, pricing, and go-to-market activities.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree

Additional Educational Requirements:

In lieu of a Bachelor Degree, 12 years of professional experience involving technology-focused process improvements, transformations, and/or system implementations.

Minimum Years of Experience:
1 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:
Master Degree

Preferred Fields of Study:
Business Analytics, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Management Information Systems, Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates some abilities and/or a proven record of success in:

• Establishing and maintaining relationships with business partners in order to provide effective functional solutions;
• Working with stakeholders to gather business needs and convert them into actionable epics, user stories and tasks;
• Providing feedback to lines of business from an application perspective;
• Developing and documenting functional requirements for technical integrations and data models;
• Developing user test cases, executes test cases and validates test results during testing;
• Investigating, resolving and escalating problems and developing recommendations for resolution;
• Contributing to the business short-and long-term planning sessions and provide direction to establish understanding of business goals and direction;
• Utilizing experience in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture including microservices, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints;
• Applying current agile methodologies, specifically Scrum, Java, Scala, Spring, Groovy, Maven, Gradle, SOAP and web services, REST APIs and open source software;
• Utilizing statistical analysis and techniques;
• Applying skills in Customer, Product, and Pricing Analysis; and,
• Utilizing skills in Business and Operations Analysis within marketing, operations, or risk analysis using quantitative techniques.

Demonstrates some abilities and/or a proven record of success in developing and executing a multi-tenant software/data services (SaaS) platform in a “Big Data” Environments including:

• “Big Data” technologies and systems including HDFS/Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Columnar and noSQL environments;
• Azure, AWS and GCP services and offerings and experience with use and deployment in SaaS offerings;
• Managed Services experience supporting “hot” production client environments;
• Multi-Tenant security and performance compartmentalization environments and their requirements; and,
• 24 x 7 operational support needs and designing systems to address SLAs.

Demonstrates some abilities and/or a proven record of success in applying analytical modeling and techniques to projects, including in the following areas:

• Utilizing visualization techniques and tools, i.e. D3/HTML Visualizations, Tableau/Qlikview/Spotfire/etc, Advanced Excel/Access UI, etc.;
• Understanding advanced analytics techniques, regression, simulation, utilizing R/SAS, SPSS, Java, VBA, etc.;
• Understanding applicable sources of external, internal or new data sources, i.e. SQL, Oracle, NoSQL, Hadoop, MSFT Access, etc.;
• Understanding Healthcare, Insurance, Financial Services, Customer and industrial Products and Services, Supply Chain, Manufacturing or Telecom Industries;
• Leading and motivating distributed teams;
• Fostering team commitment to tasks and influence key people inside and outside of the group;
• Having a flexible communication style based on the audience (i.e., eliminating technical jargon when needed or deep diving into technical details with the development team);
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, building relationships and achieving results without a direct reporting relationship; and,
• Grasping a range of functional and nonfunctional requirements to understand an application scope and define the right architecture including solution components and interactions.