Workforce Analytics Director

Company: PwC
Location: Houston
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Specialty/Competency: Data, Analytics & AI
Industry/Sector: Not Applicable
Time Type: Full time
Travel Requirements: Up to 80%
A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.
You'll focus on aligning client data strategies to their business strategy. You will assist clients in choosing a platform, defining their data needs and migrating them to a modern cloud data environment using cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, Databricks or Teradata.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

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  Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
  
  
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  Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
  
  
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  Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
  
  
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  Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
  
  
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  Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
  
  
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  I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
  
  
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  Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
  
  
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  Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
  
  
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  Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  
  Basic Qualifications :
  Minimum Degree Required :
  Bachelor Degree
  Minimum Years of Experience :
  12 year(s)
  Preferred Qualifications :
  Preferred Fields of Study :
  Mathematics, Statistics, Computer and Information Science, Engineering, Analytics, Data Processing/Analytics/Science
  Preferred Knowledge/Skills :
  Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing or executing in the combination (not necessarily all) of the following technical areas:
  
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    Designing and developing advanced analytics solutions, AI/ML models, and communicating insights and operationalizing solutions based on ML Ops process, particularly in the human resources and workforce data related space;
    
    
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    Utilizing modern framework and technologies including a combination of - NLP / NLG / LLM, Python or SQL;
    
    
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    Leveraging visualization and presentation applications and tools;
    
    
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    Performing data sourcing, data engineering and cleansing, train-test-validation of models, field testing and experimental test & design;
    
    
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    Understanding of the HCM (human capital management) applications, solutions landscape, how HCM CoE (center of excellence) operates, what challenges and opportunities the HCM field face in relation to data and emerging technologies;
    
    
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    Designing and developing plans, solutions and risk mitigation strategies related to data sourcing, ingestion, management, visualization, insights for decision making;
    
    
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    Possessing consulting experience (e.g., Big 4, strategy houses, advisory internal to the organization, large startup from business development, sales engineering, account management to delivery) from strategy to execution working with large large organizations inclusive of leading business development, managing teams and building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders;
    
    
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    Guiding the application of leading practices in supporting high availability, scalable, process and storage intensive solutions architectures to data integration/migration, analytics and insights, AI and ML requirements;
    
    
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    Understanding of conversational (Chats, emails and Calls) data, and the use of this data to train NLP Pipeline and chatbots;
    
    
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    Implementing NLP / NLG techniques such as parts of speech tagging, lemmatization, canonicalization, Word2vec, etc.; and,
    
    
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    Implementing bot framework like RASA and NLP tools like LUIS/ Dialog flow or Lex.
    
    
    Demonstrates thought leader-level abilities with, and/or a proven record of success directing efforts in the following business areas:
    
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      Demonstrating critical thinking and problem solving methods and skills, i.e., converting client problems/requests into a structured set of options and selecting appropriate analytical techniques;
      
      
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      Leading and working with large Cloud Data Platform, Cloud Data migration or Enterprise Information Management, Change Management, Transformation Journey programs;
      
      
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      Creating robust relationships with business stakeholders and ability to act as a trusted advisor to client leaders;
      
      
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      Providing a proven collaboration, coaching and teaming approach;
      
      
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      Using appropriate facilitation techniques to gain agreement or move others to action;
      
      
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      Supporting and leading the development of digital accelerators and repeatable solutions;
      
      
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      Supporting business development efforts by participating in proposal development, sales pursuits, and client presentations; and,
      
      
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      Leading business development efforts by participating in proposal development, sales pursuits, and client presentations.
      
      
      Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
      PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
      All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. PwC is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.
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