Associate - Digital Services (Saudi Nationals)

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  Location

  (SAUDI ARABIA) and Riyadh

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  Job Reference

  21070

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  Functional Area/Experience

  IT / Fresh Graduate

Job Description & Qualifications

At PwC, we measure success by our ability to create the value that our clients and our people are looking for. Our reputation lies in building lasting relationships with our clients and a focus on delivering value in all we do. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 236,000 people who are committed to delivering world-class capabilities and quality in assurance, tax and advisory services.

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 4,200 people across 12 countries. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market and beyond.

PwC Middle East Overview

Established in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 6,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond. In Consulting, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best across industry and professional functional advisory services. We focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep industry expertise. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, always ensuring that we are able to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our Consulting practice currently focuses on several core industry sectors including (Consumer and Industrial Products & Services, Energy, Utilities & Mining, Financial Services, Government, Health Industries, Finance Function, People and Organisation, Economics and Sustainability, and Technology).

Business Unit Overview

The Technology Consulting team is shaping the Digital and IT market in the GCC. Working with Public and private sector clients to help them improve overall value delivered to their customers and employees by formulating digital strategies and helping them in the implementation. We are helping clients unlock the potential of digital by increasing their customer engagement, providing their employees with powerful tools, and helping them optimize and digitize their operations.

A career in Digital Services and Technology is an opportunity to bring PwC's strategy to life by driving digitization and technology into everything we deliver. Our clients expect us to bring the right people and the right technology to solve their biggest problems; Digital Services is here to help PwC meet that challenge and accelerate the growth of our business.

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.

Role and Responsibilities

As an Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
• Train and lead staff
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

Skills and Competencies

A career in our Technologies practice will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients identify and prioritize emerging technologies that can help solve their business problems. We help clients design approaches to integrate new technologies, skills, and processes so they can drive business results and innovation. A Software Engineer demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Work on solutions that are built to scale to a large user base across different industries.
• Deal with challenging problems that require code and can stand up to the scale of our clients’ needs across web and mobile.
• Be passionate about solving problems using clean, optimized, and reusable code.
• Take charge of the entire software development life cycle, from implementing the UI and writing code, to deployment and maintenance.
• Fully understand and analyze the project requirements.
• Brainstorm and evaluate ideas collaboratively with a team.
• Understand and implement technology-specific best practices.
• Create solid and robust code that adheres to high standards and best practices.
• Take responsibility of your code, including testing and commenting it
• Have the willingness to learn and upskill on new technologies.

Education, Qualifications & Certificates

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Data Science/Engineering, Artificial Intelligence or equivalent
• 3.5 out of 4 GPA or equivalent