Acceleration Center - P&T - Scrum Master - Senior Associate

Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Internal Firm Services - Other

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in Products and Technology is an opportunity to bring PwC's strategy to life by driving products and technology into everything we deliver. Our clients expect us to bring the right people and the right technology to solve their biggest problems; Products and Technology is here to help PwC meet that challenge and accelerate the growth of our business. We have skilled technologists, data scientists, product managers and business strategists who are using technology to accelerate change.

Our team leverages Agile and Scrum practices for product delivery. Their roles focus on iterative and incremental frameworks for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products. These roles support and coach product and software development teams and ensure that teams are embracing Agile principles and practices.

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 Senior Associate, 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:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required:
Bachelor Degree

Additional Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating, in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college.

Minimum Years of Experience:
4 year(s) of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree Preferred:
Master Degree

Preferred Fields of Study:
Business Analytics, Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering & Accounting

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough knowledge and/or a proven record of success in development and utilization of technology, emphasizing the following areas: 

• Utilizing and applying projects knowledge of IT implementation and maintenance, learning initiatives, operations reporting, metrics, marketing and communications;
• Exploring new technologies & assembling and managing product teams by working closely with engineering team and stakeholders;
• Working in small multidisciplinary teams to help build products that are beneficial to our consultants and their clients;
• Demonstrating flexibility by working to define requirements while simultaneously designing for those requirements;
• Establishing a successful collaboration model with business leadership teams and functional leadership teams;
• Representing stakeholders and setting product and project vision;
• Working with the development team, by creating and managing a product roadmap;
• Prioritizing new features/development and establishing execution is completed;
• Being an influential voice on behalf of the customer (our consultants and their clients) constantly thinking about their needs and the reflection of those needs in the products we deliver;
• Working with UI/UX professionals to create visual prototypes and functional prototypes with agile approaches;
• Demonstrating effective collaboration with teams spanning multiple geographies; and,
• Presenting at meetings and conferences to create awareness of product strategy and generate excitement for future business opportunities;
• Learning new technologies quickly and without formal training;
• Communicating ideas to business and technical people;
• Utilizing proven written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with aptitude to understand and solve problems;
• Managing multiple tasks and assigned projects;
• Building relationships and influencing decisions;
• Coordinating/integrating resources who are not direct reports;
• Working independently with minimal supervision; and,
• Leveraging ability with applications and systems that support processes including product lifecycle management, ideation management, product planning and requirements gathering, Agile project management, code-development, quality management, test automation, integration and build automation, continuous integration and deployment, issue and problem management, application and infrastructure measurement and monitoring, integration with business systems, information security, and cloud orchestration.

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Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date

Products and Technology