Salesforce System Architect, Global

Line of Service

Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

IFS - Internal Firm Services - Other

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in information technology operations focus on managing and maintaining the technology infrastructure and systems to provide smooth operations and efficient delivery of IT services. This includes monitoring network performance, troubleshooting issues, and implementing security measures.
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.

Meaningful work you’ll be part of

As a Salesforce System Architect, Global, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Experience in architectural design and application delivery

• Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues and application rationalization

• Experience in established Software Development Lifecycles and methodologies including agile, scrum, iterative and waterfall, using blended resources

• Robust analytical thinking skills with the ability to identify , debug and resolve technical issues and lean IT principles and data driven approaches

• Protection of intellectual property, disaster recovery planning and adherence to SDLC as well as COBIT, CMMI, PMM4, and ITIL

• Architectural domain knowledge including cloud application architecture and container-based deployment

• Business acumen that can interpret and translate goals into technical specifications, delivering thought leadership of specific technologies and driving technology change

• Business knowledge and interpersonal skills to build, maintain and influence relationships with senior leaders

• Supervising and establishing delivery of project initiatives and building trusting and influential relationships and engaging with vendors and third parties as appropriate

• Collaborating with other Architects and Developers to provide technical design guidance to align with strategy and applicable technical standards and working independently to evaluate and make strategic decisions that will address specific technology design needs

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve

• Designing, building and deploying cloud-centric solutions on Azure, AWS, and GCP;

• Orchestrating Microservices to create business APIs and REST API design and creation

• Design Styles, Patterns and Methodologies such as MVC, SOA, Microservice, SPA, MVC/MVP

• Understanding relational and document database knowledge and microservice architecture with distributed processing patterns (SQL, NoSQL)

• Demonstrating architectural domain knowledge including cloud application architecture and container-based deployment

• Supporting technology and the business to align cloud standards; updating and maintaining the key Enterprise Architecture deliverables for cloud technology

• Displaying initiative and an ability to lead others, providing coaching and technical mentoring

• Learning rapidly and continuously taking advantage of new technologies, concepts and business models; demonstrating a history of staying current in emerging technology trends

• Leveraging business and domain acumen to interpret and translate architecture plans to business plans

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.