Digital & Data Transformation - Senior Manager

About the role

PwC New Zealand's Digital & Data Transformation team combines strategy, technology, architecture, data and delivery expertise to help organisations define their direction and build scalable solutions. As an Associate Director, you will help shape and grow the strategy and architecture capability while expanding your leadership, delivery and market responsibilities. You will work with senior stakeholders across government and public sector organisations, utilities and banks, leading multidisciplinary teams through complex technology and transformation engagements.

Key responsibilities

• Develop strategic intent, technology strategies and transformation roadmaps aligned with clients' business priorities
• Build business cases that connect technology investment with measurable business value
• Lead business capability modelling to help clients understand current-state gaps and define future-state requirements
• Design enterprise, solution, cloud and data architecture approaches that support scalable, sustainable transformation
• Take responsibility for delivering strategy and architecture engagements, and lead and coach teams
• Build relationships with senior client stakeholders and contribute to proposals and new engagements
• Apply sector experience to shape solutions for government, public sector, utilities or banking clients

Required profile

• 8+ years' experience in technology strategy and architecture, including transformation roadmaps
• Consulting experience, ideally in a Big Four or similar environment, with government, public sector, utilities or banking clients
• Experience leading strategy, architecture or technology transformation engagements from definition to delivery
• Commercial mindset, proposal contribution and executive-level communication skills

Required skills

• Business case development and business capability modelling
• Enterprise and solution architecture, including cloud and data architecture
• Hands-on cloud experience or relevant cloud certifications (Cloud Architect preferred)

What we offer

• Discretionary bonus, referral bonuses, retail discounts and deals
• Global network, leadership development, AI tools and training, and formal learning pathways
• $250 annual wellbeing allowance, life and income protection, EAP and Headspace, 15 days' paid sick leave, group health insurance
• Flexible working, two paid recognition days, extra leave purchase option, paid parental leave and volunteering leave

The role requires an independence review process and direct application through the PwC careers site; it is not open to recruitment agencies.