Assurance - Digital Trust - Developer - Senior Associate

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Assurance

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary
The adoption of digital technology is driving organisational change at an unparalleled rate. This change creates risk and trust has become essential for organisations to thrive in tomorrow's digital world. Our people combine digital, risk and technology expertise to help organisations build and maintain that trust.

Due to the rapid growth of our team, we currently have opportunities for an ambitious and highly motivated Development Manager with a proven track record of high quality delivery of web application projects and managing a team of web developers. Someone with the right blend of hands-on data experience and an eye for innovation to help us build out our client offerings which we can bring to market.

Responsibilities:

As a Development Senior Associate you'll manage a team of web developers and work with a wider team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience to deliver technology solutions to digitise PwC's client service offerings. You'll be an integral part of the team and will be responsible for delivering our vision and transform the way we operate and the way we bring our services to market. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.

Specific responsibilities will include:

- Managing the core development team on a day to day basis, you will deliver new functionality and enhancements for our suite of business applications.
- Assigning development tasks to the development team and tracking the progress of these tasks.
- Estimating the amount of effort and time required to develop key functionality and enhancements to our applications.
- Managing multiple technology projects at once.
- Designing technical solutions to business problems in line with existing application architecture and constraints as well as leading the development of new applications and solutions.
- Capturing business requirements and translating them into technical requirements documents and specifications.
- Overseeing the development of modules and functionality and ensuring that they meet the business needs.
- Conducting regular code reviews for quality and security.
- Working collaboratively with the developers and other senior business stakeholders.
- Working with our internal IT teams where required to resolve infrastructure or network issues which may impact our applications.
- Coordinating unit testing with business teams
- Working with business teams to investigate bugs and design fixes to those bugs.
- Overseeing code releases to testing and production environments.
- Administering the development, testing and production environments, Azure virtual machines, Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server and any other applicable packages or software.
- Putting forward ideas on how to innovate the development cycle, such as ways to work more efficiently or deliver functionality and fix issues in less time without compromising either the functionality specification or the quality of the application.
- Coaching and appraising the junior members of the team.

Requirements

Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant subject areas such as computer science or mathematics.
- Years of Experience : 3-5 years of relevant experience as a web developer.
- In-depth understanding of web development using ASP.net (C#) MVC.
- Strong knowledge of relational database design in MS SQL Server and proficiency writing queries in SQL.
- Strong knowledge of Javascript including at least one of the popular frameworks such as jQuery or AngularJS.
- Strong knowledge of HTML 5 + CSS3.
- Experience delivering web application projects as part of a team, including the use of version control software such as MS TFS or Git.
- Strong knowledge and experience using MS Azure.
- Strong project management experience.
- Experience working with software development methodologies such as Agile or Waterfall.
- Knowledge and experience configuring IIS, Windows Server and SQL Server environments is preferable.
- The ability to translate business requirements into a technical solution.
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise work load whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
- Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluent in English but multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.
- The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.