A career in our Product Development and Architecture - Practice Support practice, within New Business Ventures, will provide you with the opportunity to invest in new business models that leverage our knowledge and build solutions for the growing digital market. New Business Ventures identifies, develops, and commercialises technology-enabled solutions that deliver PwC value, knowledge, and experience to our clients. Each new solution focuses on data-driven platforms or other intellectual property based solutions that leverage emerging technologies and new business models. Through the process of building new solutions, we foster a culture of innovation within PwC, extend brand relevance in the market, and generate new revenue. Our team is responsible for the research, collaboration, prototyping of products, solutions, and services for PwC New Ventures.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients 
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

The software engineer is responsible for executing the technical vision with the solution architect team and other developers (both onshore/offshore) to turn the vision into reality with an on-time and quality implementation. This role supports concept development, product planning/estimation and works with the Product Management team to drive product development as a critical member of a product leadership team.

Job Requirements and Preferences: 

Basic Qualifications: 

Minimum Degree Required: 
Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years of Experience: 
2 year(s) 

Required Knowledge and Skills: 

JavaScript; Angular 5+ or React; Node.js

Preferred Qualifications: 

Degree Preferred: 
Master Degree

Preferred Fields of Study: 
Computer and Information Science, Engineering

Preferred Knowledge/Skills: 

Demonstrates thorough knowledge and/or a proven record of success in modern software engineering approaches, technologies, and tools, including the following areas:

• TypeScript;
• PostgreSQL;
• Docker;
• Mobile/Web architecture tech stacks;
• Languages runtimes NodeJS, Python;
• Web Frameworks/Libraries such as Angular, React, D3;
• GraphQL schema definition and service implementation;
• Event-driven and microservices architectures;
• Messaging patterns and queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis);
• Polyglot Persistence including RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo, Neo4j, Cassandra) data stores and appropriate use cases;
• Cloud-ready architectures utilizing infrastructure and platform cloud services for AWS, GCP, or Azure;
• Containers & container management including Docker, Kubernetes;
• Rapid-prototyping workflows and development tools;
• Configuration Management such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform;
• Big Data or Analytics or AI tools;
• DevOps including virtualization, automation, continuous integration;
• Experience working in a venture backed software startup developing greenfield products recommended;
• Familiarity with Agile; and,
• Familiarity Automatic Deployments;

Demonstrates a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Communicating, verbally and written, with both business and technical stakeholders to achieve product engineering objectives;
• Leading across all aspects of a technology solution such as integration, data, services, front-end, back-end, network, deployment, scaling, security, performance and development;
• Managing rapid-prototyping efforts with new and emerging technologies leveraging agile development techniques;
• Designing successful technical/integration architectures for large-scale platforms with a mix of 3rd party vendor, open-source, custom software, including the documentation of technical assumptions and decisions;
• Contributing to and managing incubators/innovation lab environments, and working with small teams across a variety of new and emerging technologies;
• Working in an environment that leverages project management skills like planning and tracking, issue and risk management, multitasking, team organization, and activity prioritization; and,
• Developing front-end, back-end, and/or systems administration applications with strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (Javascript, Python, etc.).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.