Cloud Platform Delivery Lead – GCP: 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 workstreams
- 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 Google Cloud Platform–based solutions and cloud migration initiatives, including managing delivery across multiple parallel GCP workstreams (e.g., six to seven concurrent workstreams). Demonstrates the ability to manage execution risk, technical dependencies, and platform stability while making informed technical decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and driving delivery outcomes in collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders.

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and operate GCP Landing Zone architectures, including the use of organizational folders, projects, shared virtual private clouds, and identity and access management controls. Demonstrates the ability to design and support tenant-as-a-service capabilities that enable secure, standardized, and self-service project and environment provisioning for engineering teams.

Demonstrates extensive ability to lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives within GCP environments, including defining and applying migration patterns such as rehosting, replatforming, and cloud-nativ