Description

Join us in cultivating a collaborative workplace driven by unique perspectives. We’re proud PwC advances a culture that helps everyone to thrive. It's one of the reasons we're recognized as a "Top Company" to work for in Canada. As you ignite a meaningful career and build a network that’ll last for life, you'll work with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to help solve important problems, empowered by technology to turn today's ideas into tomorrow's solutions. We cultivate an environment in which our differences are embraced and our people feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. An empowering and diverse environment starts with you. Are you ready to get started?

A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You’ll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth.

Our Data Intelligence and Analysis - Practice Support team provides PwC a series of organisational technology capabilities that include business intelligence, data management, data warehouse, and data assurance. You’ll help with projects that involve information technology strategy and infrastructure, enterprise architecture, enterprise applications, large scale programme and portfolio management, information technology security, data analytics, computer forensics, and emerging technologies like cloud, mobility and social networking.

Important point(s) to consider

NEW! COVID-19 Vaccination Policy: Putting the safety of our people and clients first as we look to a hybrid future: The health, well-being and safety of our colleagues, clients, and communities is our number one priority. Vaccinations have proven to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Effective Friday, October 1, 2021, PwC Canada requires all partners, staff, contractors and visitors to be fully-vaccinated when entering a PwC location, subject to applicable legal exemptions. At PwC, the future ways of work will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual, allowing choice and flexibility to explore new ways of working and collaborating. Read this press release for further details.

What you’ll create and do

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Identify and address internal stakeholder needs: deliver clear requests for information; communicate potential conflicts to a senior team member

Design impactful and innovative experiences for users that align to defined UX strategies and are consistent with best practices in information architecture, interaction design, and established usability heuristics

Conceptualize mockups and concepts, design visualizations and reports; focusing on providing positive user experience, stakeholder value and ease of use

Demonstrated experience and passion in designing for user experience by prototyping and iterating alternative approaches and using agile methodologies

Prioritize and handle multiple tasks; researching and analyzing pertinent internal stakeholder, industry, and technical matters

Have a strong portfolio demonstrating graphic design principles (balance, weight, color, typography, hierarchy) and data visualization expertise

Demonstrated a depth of experience with emphasis on user-interface design for digital applications, including complex data-driven sites and multi-screen applications

Coach and collaborate with peers who assist with this work, including providing coaching, feedback and guidance on work performance

Must be able to break down complex problems, question assumptions and be comfortable working with limited information and some degree of uncertainty

Share new tools, design trends and industry best practices with team members

Define and translate business needs and requirements into designing, building and deploying solutions, focusing on delivering insights and stakeholder value

Document and refine research findings into user personas, journey maps, service blueprints, affinity maps and user stories

Translate concepts into deliverables: wireframes, user stories, user journeys and mockups optimized for brand consistency and a wide range of devices and interfaces; iterating with increased levels of fidelity

Take a user-centered design approach, by communicating with peers and internal stakeholders, and rapidly test and iterate designs

Assist with the development of a user interface design style guide that incorporates brand consistency used across user interfaces, assist with developing a visual design library for common user interface elements, including buttons and icons, and conceive, document, and set document interface guidelines and standards

Collaborate across multiple product and project teams with practical experience delivering projects using agile methodologies including Scrum and SAFe

Proactively identify logic gaps, errors, anomalies, inconsistencies, and redundancies in the content and structure within reports

Deliver solutions through presentations and reports to technical and nontechnical audiences at various levels

Execute and deliver design reviews and technical demos with project teams and internal stakeholders to obtain and implement feedback

What you’ll bring to this role

An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work

A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives

Experience with data visualization development, advanced calculations, and developing interactive visualizations and demonstrated experience creating graphical user interfaces, mockups, prototypes, and design documents

Certification or Degree in information design, user interface design or related field

Diverse portfolio that exhibits excellent use of typography, color, imagery, and graphic elements in designs

Experience creating or is familiar with: user personas, experience/user journey mapping, wireframes, low and hi-fi prototyping, user testing and UI design

Basic knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/JQuery/other

Knowledge of UI and UX design

Experience with industry standard tools and frameworks including: Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD; Zeplin or InVision ; Mural, Miro or InVision Freehand; Asana, Azure DevOps or Jira; Agile or Scrum; Software Development Methodology

 Comfortable delivering advice and taking feedback in high-pressure environments

Ability to communicate design concepts and choices to non-design staff

Excellent discretion when dealing with sensitive information 

Consistently message and promote D&A strategy across the business

Prioritize and handle multiple tasks; researching and analyzing pertinent internal stakeholder, industry, and technical matters

Translate business needs into visual designs, with a specific understanding of how client demands turn into technical dashboard solutions. Respond to requests to update and improve design of dashboards and visuals