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PwC · 7 hours ago

Cloud Platform Delivery Lead – Azure: Manager

NY-Buffalo

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$99K/yr - $232K/yr

5+ years exp

PwC is a leading professional services firm, and they are seeking a Cloud Platform Delivery Lead – Azure: Manager. This role involves designing and implementing seamless integration solutions and robust platform architectures for clients, while also leading and mentoring a team to ensure successful project delivery.

AccountingBusiness DevelopmentConsultingFinanceFinancial ServicesTax Consulting

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Azure architectureCloud migrationKubernetesInfrastructure as codeContinuous integrationTechnical leadershipMentoringProject managementProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Bachelor's Degree

5 years of experience

Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college

Demonstrates extensive ability to provide end-to-end delivery leadership and technical direction for Azure-based platforms and cloud migration initiatives, including managing delivery across multiple parallel Azure workstreams (e.g., six to seven concurrent workstreams)

Demonstrates the ability to make informed technical decisions, identify delivery and execution risks, evaluate trade-offs, and implement mitigation plans in collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and operate Azure Landing Zone architectures, including management groups, subscriptions, networking, security controls, and policy enforcement

Demonstrates the ability to design and support tenant-as-a-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision secure and compliant Azure environments through standardized, self-service workflows

Demonstrates extensive ability to lead large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives within Azure environments, including defining and applying migration patterns such as rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring

Demonstrates the ability to manage migration sequencing, cutover strategies, dependency planning, and operational readiness to support stable production outcomes

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of Azure architecture and hands-on technical execution across services such as virtual networking, identity and access management, Kubernetes services, application platforms, serverless functions, relational and NoSQL databases, and observability tooling

Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, and validate architecture decisions through hands-on technical contribution and technical review

Demonstrates extensive ability to architect, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based container platforms using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster design, networking, ingress and traffic management, identity integration, autoscaling strategies, and security controls

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and evolve internal developer platforms that integrate continuous integration and delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes platforms, security controls, and service ownership models

Demonstrates the ability to design and implement workflow orchestration solutions that support tenant provisioning, environment creation, deployment, and platform automation

Demonstrates extensive ability to design, build, and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, including reusable workflows and GitOps-based deployment patterns

Demonstrates the ability to define standardized, self-service deployment workflows that support both application and infrastructure delivery while improving consistency and developer productivity

Demonstrates extensive ability to develop and govern infrastructure as code solutions using tools such as Terraform and native Azure provisioning technologies, including the creation and maintenance of reusable modules

Demonstrates the ability to enforce infrastructure standards, embed policy and compliance controls, and review code changes to ensure quality, correctness, and adherence to governance requirements

Demonstrates extensive ability to contribute as a hands-on engineer by developing platform services, automation, and proof-of-concept solutions using programming languages such as Python and Go

Demonstrates the ability to apply engineering best practices, including unit testing, maintainable code design, and disciplined source control practices

Demonstrates extensive ability to lead and mentor engineering team members by providing technical guidance, coaching, and ongoing feedback

Demonstrates the ability to establish and uphold engineering standards, conduct design and code reviews, and support continuous improvement in technical practices across teams through leadership by example

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Information Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Analytics, Business Analytics preferred