Manager - Business Solutions

About the role

PwC is hiring a Manager for its Advisory line of service, focused on information technology. The role leads the design, delivery and support of secure, resilient and scalable enterprise applications, combining client leadership with technical judgement across the Microsoft application stack, cloud and hosting environments, data platforms, integrations and DevOps. The manager provides technical direction across client engagements, translates business and payroll requirements into solution designs, governs engineering quality and guides multidisciplinary teams through architecture, build, testing, deployment and production support.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical workstreams and create clarity across architecture, engineering, testing, release and support activities.
• Analyse complex requirements and recommend solutions that balance security, scalability, performance, maintainability, delivery risk and cost.
• Coach technical teams, set quality expectations and communicate technical decisions to clients, engineers and non-technical audiences.
• Own end-to-end architecture for enterprise applications built on C#, ASP.NET.NET and .NET Core, including service boundaries, deployment topology, integration patterns and data flows.
• Govern SQL Server engineering, including data modelling, stored procedures, indexing, execution plans and concurrency issues.
• Set the DevSecOps approach using Git and Azure DevOps, including pipelines, automated testing, secrets management and controlled production deployment.
• Define application security controls covering identity, role-based access, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, encryption and protection of personal or payroll data.
• Oversee IIS, Windows Server, SQL Server and cloud-hosted workloads, including high availability, load balancing, monitoring, backup and recovery.
• Lead major incident resolution and root cause analysis, and establish engineering quality gates for unit, integration, API, regression, performance and security testing.
• Partner with Product Leads and client technology teams on architectural decisions, upgrades, obsolescence and roadmaps, and develop team capability through code reviews, training and knowledge transfer.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience, including technical leadership across enterprise application development, integration, deployment and production support.
• Demonstrable experience leading .NET and SQL Server solutions and reviewing the work of developers, database specialists and integration engineers.
• Experience in HCM, payroll or other data-intensive platforms is a strong advantage.
• Experience with hosting, change management, incident management, release governance and end-to-end software delivery.

Required skills

• C#, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API and the wider .NET ecosystem.
• SQL Server, T-SQL, stored procedures, performance tuning and Query Store.
• REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, SFTP and integration with HCM, payroll, finance or identity platforms.
• Azure DevOps or equivalent, Git, CI/CD and automated quality controls.
• OWASP-aligned secure development, identity and access management, encryption and data-protection controls.
• Windows Server, IIS and cloud hosting, monitoring and high availability.