Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Application / Solution Architecture
Management Level
Senior 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.
Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
- Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
- Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
- Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
- Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
- Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
- Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
- Model 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.
Level:
Sr. Manager
Team:
Delivery Excellence- Tech Enablement
Product:
- Concourse
- The Delivery Excellence – Tech Enablement team is seeking a highly hands-on and execution-focused Architect to lead end-to-end technical strategy, design, and implementation across complex, cross-functional initiatives. The Architect plays a critical role in shaping scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions while ensuring alignment with platform-wide standards and long-term engineering direction.
- The Architect serves as a technical leader who operates deeply in the code, partnering closely with engineers through practical guidance, pull request participation, and day-to-day mentorship. This role drives architectural clarity and consistency across teams, leading cross-team initiatives, collaborating with technical leaders, and enabling engineering teams to deliver with confidence and technical excellence.
- This position also acts as a technical anchor for multiple offshore teams, ensuring adherence to architectural patterns, engineering best practices, and product objectives. Beyond design and governance, the Architect actively supports coding, reviews, troubleshooting, and delivery—promoting strong execution, architectural integrity, and a best-in-class developer experience.
- Key Role Information
- 10+ years in engineering or architecture roles, with proven experience designing and delivering modern software solutions.
- This is a hands-on role, therefore you need to be comfortable writing and reviewing code (ideally JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, Microservices, MongoDB).
- Deep understanding of engineering execution — from planning and estimation to CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex technical deliveries while staying close to the work.
- Strong architectural instincts backed by pragmatic, real-world experience.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to navigate technical and non-technical audiences with clarity.
- Ability to openly discuss, understand, and translate business problems into technical solution in real time conversations and refinements.
- Experience bringing back solutions to product teams based on your knowledge of the business, platform, and technical capabilities, instead of architecting and developing exactly what is requested by the product teams.
- Experience in scaled agile environments, with architectural ownership at the Epic or Capability level.
- Proven application on GenAI in the SDLC.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture Design, Ownership & Alignment
- Define, validate, and evolve technical architecture alongside development teams, ensuring alignment with product vision and delivery goals.
- Represent architecture in agile ceremonies, grooming, planning, and design sessions.
- Translate architecture into working solutions — collaborating on service and UI patterns, interfaces, data contracts, and NFRs (scalability, observability, security).
- Drive architecture definition and decision-making for your teams while ensuring alignment with Concourse platform patterns and practices.
- Define, validate, and evolve technical architecture alongside development teams, ensuring alignment with product vision and delivery goals.
- Propose and jointly build Proofs of Concept (POCs) with teams to de-risk architecture and validate approaches before wider implementation.
- Act as the offshore/onshore bridge for architecture, working directly with U.S.-based leads to communicate context, validate direction, and ensure technical cohesion.
- Hands
- On Engineering Leadership
- Stay immersed in the codebase — contributing directly to features, refactors, reviews, and CI/CD practices.
- Serve as a technical guide for engineers, modeling clean code practices, testing strategies, and patterns.
- Support developers with hands-on guidance, unblock technical issues, and debug complex system behaviors as needed.
- Technical Team Delivery & Developer Enablement
- Work with Tech Leads across multiple teams to ensure successful delivery of technical outcomes.
- Partner with tech leads and delivery managers to ensure consistent execution across sprints and PIs.
- Identify gaps in implementation, drive resolution, and maintain quality under real-world constraints.
- Identify and implement tooling or practices that improve developer experience and velocity.
Encourage a consultative mindset across the team:
- helping devs understand the “why” behind the “what.”
- Mentorship & Talent Development
- Actively mentor engineers and architects — offering feedback through pairing, PRs, design sessions, and retrospectives.
- Foster growth across the team by sharing architectural principles, tech knowledge, and delivery best practices.
- Evaluate technical strengths and development areas to guide talent evolution.
- Operational & Support Readiness
- Be the primary technical responder on critical support and incident calls when needed.
- Lead technical triage, collaborate with developers, and guide root cause resolution.
- Ensure issues are followed by post-incident RCA (Root Cause Analysis), automation, and testing improvements to avoid recurrence.
- How You Work
Builder's Mentality:
You believe architecture is validated through working code, not just diagrams.
Leadership Through Presence:
You lead by doing and gain influence by investing in people and outcomes.
Collaborative by Default:
You work across boundaries, partner with platform and solution architects, and embrace feedback loops.
Ownership Mindset:
You own outcomes from whiteboard to prod, and care deeply about the impact of your solutions.
Embedded, not Detached:
You believe architects should be in the trenches, guiding and supporting developers where it matters most — in code and in conversations.
Connector:
You collaborate across geographies and roles, ensuring alignment, understanding, and delivery across boundaries.
Problem Solver:
You’re not afraid to dive into logs, debug code, or jump on a support call — and then drive process or tech improvements to prevent recurrence.
Mentor & Multiplier:
- You grow talent around you and raise the bar through your presence and leadership.
- What You’ll Bring to the Team
- A systems-thinking mindset with a passion for clean, sustainable architecture.
- A consultative approach that enables teams to solve problems while aligning with enterprise standards.
- Confidence navigating complex environments with multiple stakeholder groups.
- A proactive drive to lead architecture from concept to delivery.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
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