Next Generation Data Center Director - PwC (New York, NY)

Line of Service:Advisory Industry:Products & Services State & City:VA-McLean TX-Dallas PA-Philadelphia NY-New York IL-Chicago GA-Atlanta CA-San Jose CA-Los Angeles Travel Requirements:81-100% Position Type:Full Time Auto req ID:36633BR-4 PwC/LoS Overview: Are you interested in the opportunity to work for an industry-leading company that services Fortune 500 companies, and will give you the experience and exposure you need to build your career? If you are, then PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (www.pwc.com/us) is the firm for you. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC US) is well placed to help clients meet the challenges and opportunities of the US marketplace in the areas of assurance, tax, and advisory. We offer the perspective of being part of a global network of firms combined with detailed knowledge of local, state and US national issues. More than 163,000 people in 151 countries across our network share knowledge, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and deliver practical advice. At PwC US, you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued. We offer a flexible career progression model that allows for a variety of challenging opportunities throughout your career. We provide unparalleled coaching, mentoring, and career development programs; global opportunities; and state of the art technology-driven methodologies to help you provide quality service to our clients. At PwC, you will find Advisory professionals with unparalleled financial and accounting expertise, knowledge of business processes, industry insight and technology, and customer relationship skills. Our Advisory professionals help companies anticipate, create and manage change. In short, we help companies to : (1) respond to crises, (2) improve business processes, and (3) transform their business. Note that across all of these solutions, we embed sustainability into our approach. This also includes helping clients to sustain prior changes that may have been undertaken to address a crisis. Members of our Advisory practice provide a valuable service to our clients and strive to differentiate PwC by executing the following: * We put our clients first: Each client situation is unique, and we tailor our approach to every relationship and engagement; * We view the world from a client''s perspective: From the initial client meeting onward, we listen first, and then assemble a hand-picked team from across the firm; * We create lasting value for our clients: We bring together the precision, structure, and deep analytical capabilities of audit and tax and the creative mindset and problem-solving skills of consulting; and * We focus on action, impact, and value: We don''t just assess and recommend; we also help our clients implement with agility and flexibility. Job Description: The largest business unit within PwC''s Advisory Services, Products & Services Industries (P&SI) provides specialized business and technology consulting services to clients across several sectors by combining functional expertise with deep industry knowledge. P&SI serves public and private companies in the Automotive, Energy, Entertainment, Media, and Communications, Industrial Products, Private Equity, Retail and Consumer, Technology, and Utilities sectors. P&SI professionals also work with our clients'' economic buyers (CEO, CFO, CIO, M&A Buyer, and VP of Human Resources) in any industry sector to frame and address emerging issues. In so doing, P&SI serves as Advisory''s incubator for complex problem-solving and new services, addressing changing business models that require the intricate integration of processes, technology and people across the clients'' entire enterprise. Our IT infrastructure solutions effectively transform existing technology, people, processes, and information system investments into new and improved business capabilities: - Enhance IT responsiveness as well as business performance through modern IT infrastructure approaches and technologies - Streamline business and IT processes and provide real-time visibility into infrastructure performance - Leverage emerging technologies to provide lasting value for the IT infrastructure - Reduce IT infrastructure footprint and maintenance costs while improving quality - Institutionalize knowledge and methods to enable continuous improvement, performance gains, and consistency - Mitigate risk impacting clients, through comprehensive business ready solutions PwC''s next generation data center practice leads clients in designing, developing and delivering leading edge business solutions for IT organizations. We take a transformational approach which takes into account people, process, policies, agreements, compliance, architecture and technology, to craft a solution that delivers tangible benefits such as cost optimization, productivity/performance gains, revenue generation and risk mitigation. Position/Program Requirements: Knowledge Preferred: Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role leading efforts emphasizing, the design and development of Next Generation Converged Data Center Infrastructure; Unified Fabric; Virtualization; Orchestration; Security; and Cloud and Data Center solutions, strategies and transformations. Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role involving the, leading of client-facing business development, engagement delivery, practice development and thought leadership. This includes identifying and addressing client needs: communicating a broad range of Firm services and managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues. Demonstrated expertise with, and/or a proven record of success in a role emphasizing, leadership, including the building of large teams and creating of a positive

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