Senior Associate / Manager - Cloud, Data & AI - Data Management Specialist

PricewaterhouseCoopers Schweiz; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

PwC Switzerland is seeking a Data Management Specialist (Senior Associate or Manager) in the Cloud, Data & AI team to lead data governance, platform readiness, and AI-enabled transformation for clients. You will translate business needs into data definitions and actionable outputs on modern cloud platforms.

You will shape data products, governance processes, and roadmaps, while supporting proposals and engaging senior stakeholders across international teams.

Qualifikationen

• Significant consulting experience in an international client-facing setting.
• Strong track record in data, technology, analytics or digital transformation.
• Experience leading workshops with senior stakeholders.

Aufgaben

• Lead data quality, ownership, metadata, lineage and lifecycle initiatives.
• Shape enterprise data platforms with focus on observability and AI readiness.
• Coordinate end-to-end data products from requirements to outputs.
• Create governance forums, clarity and accountability across the organisation.
• Develop client deliverables like operating models, blueprints, and roadmaps.
• Support business development, proposals and RfP responses.
• Coach and develop team members to raise delivery quality.
• Stay ahead of market trends in data, AI, and cloud platforms.

Kenntnisse

Consulting experience

Stakeholder engagement

Proposal & sales experience

Data governance concepts

Data management initiatives

Enterprise data platforms

Celonis or Signavio

Data and AI certifications

Cross-functional collaboration

English and German fluency

Ausbildung

Business/Information Systems/CS/Engineering/Economics degree

Advanced degree or executive education advantage

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

Databricks

Jobbeschreibung

As a Data Management Specialist (Senior Associate or Manager) in PwC's Cloud, Data & AI team, you will take a leading role in helping clients transform data into trusted, scalable, and business-critical assets.

You will implement and drive complex data management, governance, platform, and AI-readiness initiatives from strategy through execution, helping organisations build the foundations for better decisions, smarter operations, and sustainable digital growth.

Your Impact

• Lead impactful initiatives across data quality, ownership, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management to ensure data is reliable, transparent, and ready to power advanced analytics, automation, and AI use cases.

• Shape and improve enterprise data platforms from an architectural, operational, and user adoption perspective, with a strong focus on data observability, data quality, and platform readiness for AI.

• Support the end-to-end creation of data products by translating business requirements into data definitions, models, transformation logic, quality rules, and usable outputs on modern cloud data platforms.

• Build effective governance processes, forums, and decision-making mechanisms that create clarity, accountability, and lasting adoption across the organisation.

• Create high-value client deliverables including target operating models, data platform blueprints, governance playbooks, policies, and implementation roadmaps that accelerate the journey toward modern data platforms and AI-enabled business models.

• Drive business development and market growth by shaping propositions, developing proposals, contributing to RfP responses, supporting commercial discussions, and identifying opportunities to expand client relationships.

• Contribute to market growth and business development by supporting proposals, RfP responses, solution design, pricing, and commercial discussions for data, analytics, platform, and AI-related opportunities.

• Coach and develop team members by providing guidance, feedback, and day-to-day leadership that strengthens delivery quality and builds the next generation of data and AI consultants.

• Stay ahead of the market by continuously expanding your expertise in emerging technologies, modern data platforms, AI, and industry trends to help clients unlock new sources of value.

Your Skill Set

• A degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related field; advanced degrees or relevant executive education are an advantage.

• Significant consulting experience in an international, client-facing environment, with a strong track record of managing workstreams or projects within data, technology, analytics, or digital transformation programmes.

• Commercial mindset and proposal experience including contribution to sales opportunities, solution design, pricing, and client relationship development.

• Experience leading workshops and engaging senior stakeholders across business and technology functions, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and build alignment around pragmatic solutions.

• Strong expertise in, and understanding of, core data management and governance concepts such as data quality, metadata, master data, ownership, and their role in enabling data-driven transformation.

• Hands-on experience in data governance or data management initiatives, data catalogues or metadata solutions, data migration, or data transformation projects in an international environment.

• Practical experience with enterprise data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or Databricks, combined with a solid understanding of supporting architecture and data platform engineering concepts.

• Interest in, and conceptual understanding of, business process analytics, ideally with hands-on experience in technologies such as Celonis or Signavio.

• Recognised technical data and AI certifications such as DAMA CDMP, Microsoft DP-900, AZ-900, AI-900, DP-600, DP-700, Snowflake SnowPro Core, Databricks Data Analyst / Data Engineer, or similar are a plus.

• Experience working in cross-functional and international teams, both in person and remotely.

• Excellent written, spoken, and visual communication skills in English and German; additional languages are an advantage.

About PwC

At PwC Switzerland, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're part of a tech-forward, people-empowered network and help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum across audit, assurance, tax, legal, workforce, deals and consulting.