Grid Modernization IT/OT Manager – PwC

Job Description

Specialty/Competency: Functional & Industry Technologies

Industry/Sector: Not Applicable

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 60%

A career within Functional and Industry Technologies services will provide you with the opportunity to build secure and new digital experiences for customers, employees, and suppliers. We focus on improving apps or developing new apps for traditional and mobile devices as well as conducting usability testing to find ways to improve our clients’ user experience.

Our team helps clients transform their business through enabling technologies across marketing, finance and operations in the functional areas such as Maximo and PowerPlant.

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 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:
• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required :

Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years of Experience :

6 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications :

Degree Preferred :

Master Degree

Preferred Fields of Study :

Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Management, Management Information Systems, Information Technology

Additional Educational Preferences :

Degree Preferred of MS or a PhD related to infrastructure risk and reliability analysis, materials science, or construction management and project delivery – MBA in general and/or operations management.

Certification(s) Preferred :

Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP)

Preferred Knowledge/Skills :

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate a proven track record in some or all of the following:
• Experience in working with both business and IT stakeholders to define strategy and technology enabled solutions;
• Diverse experience across the various architectural domains (business, application, data and technology);
• Creates architecture standards and principles to help guide solutions and their governance;
• Experience in integration between OMS, DMS, and EMS with knowledge in the OT side of Grid Modernization;
• IT to OT conversion along with a working knowledge of OT security compliance requirements;
• Identifies and applies suitable architectural models to assess current and future architectural states;
• Understands the full solution delivery lifecycle and can scope the appropriate architectural artifacts to support various views;
• Experience with Enterprise Architectural frameworks (such as TOGAF);
• Architecting and over-seeing N-tier solutions;
• Contributing to and leading application design;
• End-to-end involvement in software delivery;
• Demonstrating OO development in a commercial environment;
• Technical ownership of one or more products;
• A range of software delivery tools (source control, agile tools, CI, IDE etc);
• Demonstrating initiative and implementing and following best practices;
• Effective prioritisation of tasks and personal time management;
• Working with team around producing estimates;
• Coaching and mentoring more junior team members both technically and professionally; and,
• Interacting with clients, product owners and senior executives.

Desirable Skills & experience:
• Functional understanding of the asset lifecycle through experience in asset heavy capital projects and/or asset intensive industries and an understanding of the current issues and challenges across the industry;
• Degree in computer science related discipline;
• Delivering in a highly collaborative agile environment;
• Understanding of emerging technologies such as blockchain and IoT;
• Behavioural Driven Development and Exploratory Testing;
• Cloud environment experience; and,
• Microservices architecture practical knowledge.

At PwC, our work model includes three ways of working: virtual, in-person, and flex (a hybrid of in-person and virtual). Visit the following link to learn more: ~~~.

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