Pwc UK
Business Solutions Architect - Financial Services - Manager
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About the Role
PwC’s Managed Services delivers trusted expertise, rapid execution, and enduring outcomes by blending cutting-edge technology with deep operational insight.
As part of the Solutioning Team within the Managed Service Catalyst—a specialist group driving PwC’s managed services growth—we ensure our offerings address complex client challenges and position PwC to win and deliver transformative managed services engagements that create lasting strategic, regulatory, and commercial advantage.
This role focuses on designing scalable, process-led managed service solutions within:
- Financial Services (Banking and Capital Markets, Insurance, Asset and Wealth Management)
- The Private sector
Working as part of a broader pursuit team led by Directors and Partners, you will leverage deep expertise in:
- Business process design
- Operating models
- Service delivery frameworks
You will translate client requirements into practical, deliverable solutions. This role is particularly suited to individuals with a background in business operations, bid solutioning, and bid writing rather than technology architecture.
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Typical Responsibilities
- Support the qualification and shaping of managed service opportunities, collaborating with senior stakeholders to understand client objectives, operating environments, and key constraints.
- Contribute to bid strategies and win themes, crafting proposals that align client needs with policy drivers and PwC differentiation.
- Translate regulatory, policy, and operational requirements into scalable service designs.
- Act as a core contributor or quality reviewer in bid development, ensuring high-quality written responses that clearly articulate proposed solutions.
- Work with commercial and finance teams to develop pricing assumptions, including:
- Effort drivers
- Process volumes
- Resource models
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (technology, delivery, risk, commercial) to ensure integrated solution design.
- Support governance forums by:
- Preparing solution materials
- Responding to review feedback
- Help streamline the handover from solutioning to delivery, ensuring clarity of design intent and operational requirements.
Your Background
Ideally, you will have experience in:
- Designing and solutioning managed services or outsourced services, particularly in complex, regulated environments.
- Contributing to bids or solution design activities, including crafted written responses for client proposals in:
- Financial Services sector
- Private sector
- Translating complex service models into clear, persuasive narratives for selection committees.
- Proficiency in service design principles, including:
- KPIs
- SLAs
- Governance models
- Control frameworks
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, enabling influence with:
- Partners
- Clients
- Internal governance forums
- Experience coaching and developing others in solutioning and bid methodologies.
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Benefits
PwC’s benefits recognise and reward contributions while supporting flexibility and wellness:
- Empowered flexibility, including a hybrid working model (office, home, and client sites).
- Comprehensive private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP.
- Six volunteering days per year, alongside other programmes.
- Benefits tailored to career and personal life stages.
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