Manager/ Senior Manager - Cloud Architect - Cloud and Data - FS Advisory - Hong Kong

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Application & Emerging Technology

Management Level
Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career within the PwC Consulting team in the Hong Kong office, this role will provide you with the opportunity to assist leading organizations develop and implement strategies that transform their technology capabilities with data, analytics and cloud and solve their most critical business challenges. We take a "data-driven, cloud first" approach when building assets and delivering technology with an agile operating model. With an initial focus on Amazon AWS you will collaborate with internal teams and customers to develop hybrid cloud architectures, leverage cloud services, ensuring a solid foundation to run, manage and scale their critical business applications.

What you'll create and do

As a Senior Cloud Architect initially focused on Amazon AWS, you'll work with a team of problem solvers, leveraging emerging cloud technology and services to solve complex business challenges from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Take an "always learning" and "coaching" approach to your leadership role
• Cloud moves fast and requires a lot of "labbing and learning", be an out of the box thinker; look for opportunities to learn new software and technology
• Collaborate with your team members and contribute as a technical team lead while participate in multiple concurrent cloud focused projects
• Collaborate with cross functional team members to develop and propose to potential customers technical cloud based solutions including SOW's
• Gathering and assessing client requirements, and translating these into solution requirements and design
• Manage and grow a collection of new and existing client relationships
• Develop reference architectures and best practice approaches to optimize clients' cloud adoption, application performance, security, and cost models
• Provide technical and go to market leadership focused on asset driven cloud based solutions and services, collaborate and lead development focused teams members to bring cloud based solutions to market
• Recruit and develop a highly capable cloud engineering team, provide coaching and foster an environment where technical professionals can develop their skills and grow their careers; taking on increased responsibility and adding value to the organization
• Lead initiatives identified to shape the foundation for the cloud engineering practice, refine resource requirements, project workflow, operating budget requirements
• Develop new and existing internal and external client relationships leveraging innovative methodologies, practices, tools and assets to address key market trends and challenges
• Help others think critically and educate non-technical audiences and stakeholders on complex technical solutions both orally and in writing
• Be a active member in the technology community, provide thought leadership and mentorship, share your knowledge and expertise
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define, develop and implement the strategic direction and focus on emerging enterprise cloud services
• Continue to advance your skills, knowledge and network related to your field

What you'll bring to this role

• An interest to continuous upskilling for a digital first world and embrace technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work
• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences, developing and coaching diverse teams, and ensuring diverse perspectives are heard
• Relevant years' experience working as an architect or related capacity, ideally in finance, retail, telco, government or public sector organizations
• Demonstrated experience in cloud architecture and business applications, project execution, practice management and an understand of software development
• Extensive experience in development and execution of cloud based programs working across functional teams including Enterprise Architecture, Data Technology, Business / Corporate application owners and stewards, Governance and Management CoEs
• Experience in a technical leadership capacity to implement and scale cloud based projects with a specific focus on the following:
  
  • Cloud architecture leading practices and options, the development of cloud foundational architectures in achieving strategic objectives of clients linked to digital transformation initiatives. Strategies include: Application Migration, Microservices, Build and Release Management, DevOps tools and strategies, integrated security, data and identity management
  • Cloud technology architectures and solution options aligned to technology strategy and cloud infrastructure use cases, including hybrid cloud and deployment options (PaaS, IaaS, etc)
  • Change management practices including organizational models, roles / responsibilities and technology tooling and automation
  • Application modernization strategies and tooling
• Understanding of solution architecture, API lifecycle, technical documentation, including logical and physical architecture, and systems design artifacts
• Working knowledge of supporting the removal of technical debt and legacy applications
• Solid executive level communications skills with prior working experience in a consulting environment
• Experience delivering in waterfall, scrum, agile, and other methodologies
• Good oral and written communication skills, including developing business presentations, technical writing and facilitating data driven options analysis, senior level stakeholder discussions with an ability to express complex technical concepts in terms that are understandable to the business

Technical experience in many of the following areas:

• AWS Cloud Solution Architect would be preferred
• Application migration and modernization (microservices etc)
• Container development and management (Containerd, Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Kubernetes (specifically EKS)
• Amazon RDS
• DynamoDB
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Sagemaker
• AWS Lambda
• AWS S3
• AWS Networking (VPC, subnetting, etc)
• Infrastructure as code - Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc
• Configuration management - Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, etc
• CI/CD - Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, Flux
• Git and various git platforms (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc)
• Development experience (Go, Python, NPM)
• Agile software development and release cycle management

The PwC China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau) does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm recruiters. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of PwC China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau). PwC China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau) is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under the local law.

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Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes

Government Clearance Required?
No

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