The largest business unit within PwC's Advisory Services, Products & Services Industries (P&SI) provides specialized business and technology consulting services to clients across several sectors by combining functional expertise with deep industry knowledge. P&SI serves public and private companies in the Automotive, Energy, Entertainment, Media, and Communications, Industrial Products, Private Equity, Retail and Consumer, Technology, and Utilities sectors. P&SI professionals also work with our clients' economic buyers (CEO, CFO, CIO, M&A Buyer, and VP of Human Resources) in any industry sector to frame and address emerging issues. In so doing, P&SI serves as Advisory's incubator for complex problem-solving and new services, addressing changing business models that require the intricate integration of processes, technology and people across the clients' entire enterprise.
Our IT infrastructure solutions effectively transform existing technology, people, processes, and information system investments into new and improved business capabilities:
- Enhance IT responsiveness as well as business performance through modern IT infrastructure approaches and technologies
- Streamline business and IT processes and provide real-time visibility into infrastructure performance
- Leverage emerging technologies to provide lasting value for the IT infrastructure
- Reduce IT infrastructure footprint and maintenance costs while improving quality
- Institutionalize knowledge and methods to enable continuous improvement, performance gains, and consistency
- Mitigate risk impacting clients, through comprehensive business ready solutions
PwC's next generation data center practice leads clients in designing, developing and delivering leading edge business solutions for IT organizations. We take a transformational approach which takes into account people, process, policies, agreements, compliance, architecture and technology, to craft a solution that delivers tangible benefits such as cost optimization, productivity/performance gains, revenue generation and risk mitigation.
Position/Program Requirements
Knowledge Preferred:
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role leading efforts emphasizing, the design and development of Next Generation Converged Data Center Infrastructure; Unified Fabric; Virtualization; Orchestration; Security; and Cloud and Data Center solutions, strategies and transformations.
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role involving the, leading of client-facing business development, engagement delivery, practice development and thought leadership. This includes identifying and addressing client needs: communicating a broad range of Firm services and managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
Demonstrated expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role emphasizing, leadership, including the building of large teams and creating of a positive work environment by the development of new opportunities, successful delivery of engagements, the monitoring of organizational health, and the driving of thought leadership.
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role leading efforts and leveraging knowledge related to, Data Center Converged Infrastructure, Servers, Virtualization, Storage, Networking, Unified fabrics, Security, Automation and/or Orchestration, Cloud and Application layer solutions with a clear understanding of how an IT organization capitalizes upon technology to enable the business.
Demonstrated expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role emphasizing, IT strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, policy/processes/ standards, organizational design, governance, change management, enabling technology, and program delivery.
A completed and obtained Masters degree
Skills Preferred:
Demonstrates expert-level abilities and/or a proven record of success with managing projects related to IT Strategy, Architecture, operations and transformation experience around next generation data centers. This includes architectural design and implementation experience with major networking, storage, compute and security vendors, with a level of exposure to project management, ITIL/ITSM, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery and engagement analysis.
Demonstrates expert-level abilities and/or a proven record of success with identifying and addressing client needs, including: developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
Demonstrates expert-level abilities and/or a proven record of success as a practice leader and team leader, including: enabling teams to generate a vision, establish direction and motivate members, create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation. This also includes expert-level abilities to lead by example, while workings collaboratively as part of a team, and also executing independently.
A demonstrated proven record of success with creating a solutions-based practice, growing an organization, developing approaches/methodologies, building a thought leadership platform, leading engagements and providing consistent communications to clients and leaderships.
Minimum Years of Experience Necessary: 12
Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) desired: Completed and obtained Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts
Additional requirements:
Demonstrates extensive willingness and ability to conduct business travel 80-100% in the role
Demonstrates extensive ability to produce thought leadership and solutions materials
Demonstrates extensive recognition in the Information Technology industry as a credible participant in the technology dialogue at an industry level
Additional Information
This role will focus on commercial industry consulting.
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