Solutions Architect

Description

SummaryAt PwC Consulting and Risk Services (C&RS), we partner with clients across the African continent to help them not just achieve success but thrive in creating value for their stakeholders. By integrating deep domain expertise across sectors such as infrastructure and mobility, financial services, telecommunications, energy, mining, and manufacturing, we help craft compelling vision, develop purposeful strategy, implement meticulously and achieve operational excellence.

We do this while anticipating risk and building resilience in the face of disruption. With diverse skills in finance, engineering, sustainability, digital technologies and AI, programme management and economics among others, our teams of solvers and innovators marry together global perspectives with local insights to architect and implement high value solutions that deliver sustained outcomes.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to :

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold 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.

Role Summary :

Using deep technical knowledge and capability, lead the development of proposals and multi-disciplinary engagements. Beyond this, support broader business development initiatives, which include managing knowledge and capability content, setting standards for specific deliverables, contributing marketing campaigns and key account management.

Qualifications / Certifications required :

BSc Engineering (civil)

Project / programme Management

Experience required :

10 years of experience in the Infrastructure market sector, with emphasis on transport (Rail, Public Transport, etc.)

Experience across the Infrastructure life-cycle, viz. planning to design and construction)

Leading pursuits and proposal preparing including effort and cost estimation.

Leading multi-disciplinary teams toward developing strategy, master plans, options evaluation, etc.

Experienced in working with both public and private sector clients.

Responsibilities of role :

Proposal Development: Lead the development of proposals, ensuring alignment with client needs and our success.

Multi-disciplinary Engagements: Coordinate and lead multi-disciplinary engagements, fostering collaboration across various teams.

Business Development: Support broader business development initiatives.

Marketing Content Creation: Create compelling content for marketing collateral, including thought leadership pieces and promotional materials.

Content and Knowledge Management: Oversee the management of content and knowledge related to infrastructure, maintaining high standards and accessibility.

Deliverable Standards: Set and uphold standards for infrastructure-specific deliverables, ensuring quality and consistency.

Support Global Relationship Partners on key account management.

Skill sets required :

Integration management (in a multi-disciplinary environment)

Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, etc.)

Change management

Exceptional organisational skills and ability to prioritise

Risk aware and understands risk management processes

Problem definition and using solutioning frameworks

Ensuring exceptional client experience while managing toward strong, positive commercial outcomes.

Role related attributes :

Collaborative

Excellent time management skills

Ability to understand a wide range of perspectives and synthesis win – win outcomes

Ability to communicate complex concepts in both written and visual formats

Adaptable to dynamic environments

Comfortable working with ambiguity and the “new”

Demonstrates high degree of accountability

Industry experience required :

Infrastructure, Transport (Rail, Roads, Public Transport), Urban Development

Travel Requirements:

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Job Posting End Date:

April 19, 2025