Bilingual Technology Strategy & Transformation Director

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Technology Strategy

Management Level

Director

Job Description & Summary

A career within Technology Strategy services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations develop strategies that transform their technology capabilities and solve their most critical challenges. We focus on building technology enabled and agile operating models, planning their new enterprise architecture into a differentiating capability system that helps them win in the market, leveraging digital analytics to enhance the customer experience and optimising business operations, and using modern management techniques such as robotic process automation and next generation sourcing strategies to help our clients get fit for growth.

Meaningful work you’ll be part of

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Strategic Business Leader (i.e. a Transformation Architect) to join our Technology Strategy & Transformation team, playing a pivotal role in shaping and driving technology and data strategies across our Canadian Government clients, particularly in the Outsourcing space.

You will be responsible for aligning business and technology strategies, translating technical concepts into executive-level content and communications, and enabling effective decision-making by our client’s senior technology leaders. You will be part of our national Technology Strategy & Transformation team helping customers solve large-scale strategic business problems with technology-enabled solutions.

As a Technology Strategy & Transformation Director, 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:

1. Strategic Technology Guidance: Leverage your industry depth and knowledge of key trends, emerging technologies and leading practices to provide strategic technology guidance to our government clients. Stay ahead of current trends and likely disruptors in the Public Sector industry, enabling the identification of innovative solutions and opportunities for growth in the delivery of government services and operations. You will serve as a trusted advisor to CIO/CTOs and their leadership teams, building and maintaining relationships with these leaders to support their priorities and transformation journeys.

2. IT Outsourcing: Support clients throughout their outsourcing lifecycle journey from initial strategy through to end-of-contract deal reviews. You will have experience managing complex transformational and/or modernization programs built around the procurement of technology solutions, system integrators, and outsourcing service providers. Further, you will also possess experience with complex technology, business processes or general outsourcing contracts, and outsourcing advisory in general.

3. Technical Expertise: Demonstrate expertise in technical project management, digital delivery, or technology consulting relevant to our clients, sectors, and industries. Bring a deep understanding of cloud technologies and the integration and implementation of emerging technology into business solutions. You possess hands-on experience in delivering complex technology solutions.

4. Architectural Assessment and Road Mapping: Evaluate and assess complex technology application ecosystems and architectures, considering solution options and recommending implementation approaches. Develop comprehensive roadmaps that align with business goals and drive digital transformation initiatives across our clients. Building business models into technical models and architectures to guide implementation teams using architecture tools.

Experiences and skills you’ll use to solve:

1. Deep experience linking business and technology strategies, plans, and roadmaps, using enterprise architecture concepts and frameworks.

2. The ability to translate technical concepts into executive level presentations and discussions.

3. The ability to lead the solution perspective and teams, developing complex solutions across multiple technology eco-systems.

4. Demonstrated executive level communications skills with prior working experience in a consulting environment.

5. The ability to develop actionable insights from Architectural principles and priorities.

6. Experience with vendor relationship management, including processes, best practices, and governance structure.

7. Experience with contract negotiations, including an understanding of standard clauses / SLAs, major risk areas, and approaches to achieving favorable outcomes for all parties.

8. Experience developing and maintaining an enterprise architecture artifact, including detailed technical designs for enterprise solutions, with a consideration of dependencies across solutions.

9. Understands the vendor landscape, including major players in the outsourcing market and their core offerings.

10. Hands-on knowledge of leading systems used in the Public Sector.

11. Experience integrating solutions across SaaS, Cloud native as well as Outsource providers and their related data flows.

12. Experience using Enterprise Architecture modeling tools.

13. Enterprise architecture certifications, such as TOGAF, along with relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect), demonstrating a strong foundation in architectural principles, frameworks, and cloud technologies.

14. Ability to achieve Reliability Clearance with the Government of Canada.

15. Fluency in French and full business proficiency in English is required. A premium will be paid to candidates who are efficient in French language at a bilingual level.

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.