Power Platform, Senior Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Pwc UK

    Pwc UK
    Pwc UK London, United Kingdom

    Found in: Appcast UK C C2 - 1 week ago

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    Job Description Summary A career within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities.

    We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment.

    We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

    Power Platform Senior Consultants are responsible for leading Power Platform workstreams for design & implementation on delivery projects.

    They are also responsible for delivering Power Platform responses and providing demos on sales pursuits, managing Power Platform input to IP and asset development, and meeting the general expectations in line with their consulting grade.


    Responsibilities & Duties:
    Building relationships with new and existing clients

    Leading cross-functional teams in client-facing delivery roles

    Documenting, proposing and discussing solution options as a part of the programme team (high level design / low level design)

    Configuring and developing Microsoft Power Platform solutions to fit project requirements.

    Engaging with team members to contribute towards successful project outcomes.

    Working closely with technical development capability, including near shore and off shore teams.

    Working with third party providers to translate requirements and design to ensure solution build is in line with expectations

    Providing delivery support across all phases of the programme including testing, business change, data migration and cutover.

    Understanding business requirements and scope changes and highlight any impact on delivery teams or technical solution.

    Providing SME input across a variety of programme workstreams, including testing, training, data, reporting, and business change.

    Coach, mentor and develop more junior project team members


    PwC Consulting Manager Grade Expectations:
    Core Project Responsibilities - Leading;

    • Managing the Delivery Scope
    • Managing Offshore Deliverables
    • CR Review & Approvals
    • Ensuring PwC and Client Stakeholders are well managed
    Project Management

    • Responsible for planning and managing the workstreams they are assigned
    • Runs workstream meetings
    • Manages workstream issues & risks
    Delivery Management

    • Manages quality of deliverables across the workstreams they are assigned
    • Manages relationships with other workstreams
    People Management

    • Responsible for development of coachees
    • Responsible for skills development of less experienced team members
    Stakeholder Management

    • Manages PwC and client stakeholder expectations
    • Advocate for Microsoft within the firm
    Sales Support

    • Able to plan and deliver sales demos
    • Seen as a specialist to support sales pursuits in areas of Microsoft product expertise

    Desired Experience:
    Established experience delivering Power Platform solutions

    Ideally, experience in a client-facing role with a Microsoft Gold Partner

    Experience in Power Apps (model-driven & canvas apps), Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse for Teams, Power Pages or Power Virtual Agents

    1 or more intermediate level relevant Microsoft certifications

    Working in agile project delivery teams


    Desired Attributes:
    Relevant Microsoft Power Platform certifications where available

    Good understanding of both technical and functional capabilities of the Power Platform including Power Apps (Canvas, Model Driven, Portals), Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent

    Understanding of both technical and functional capabilities of the Microsoft Dynamics modules including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Field Service desired but not essential

    Strong presentation and demonstration skills

    Business process mapping, modelling and documentation knowledge

    Able to confidently understand not only business process design at feature or user story level but on the wider enterprise or end to end process level

    Training in project management methodologies (such as PRINCE2, Agile or Scrum) would be beneficial but not essential

    Confident and effective communication skills

    Thinks clearly and calmly under pressure

    Able to manage client expectations

    Investigates problems to establish real or hidden causes

    Solves complex problems with creative solutions

    Places emphasis on user satisfaction

    Ability to prioritise and successfully manage multiple projects/deadlines simultaneously

    Must have the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment


    Certifications:
    PL-100

    PL-200

    PL-300

    PL-400

    PL-500


    Required Skills:
    Documentation

    Business Process Analysis

    Presentation