Senior Associate / Manager - Cloud, Data & AI - Data Management Specialist — PwC Switzerland

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Your Team

As a Data Management Specialist (Senior Associate or Manager) in PwC's Cloud, Data & AI team, you will take a leading role in helping clients transform data into trusted, scalable, and business-critical assets. You will implement and drive complex data management, governance, platform, and AI-readiness initiatives from strategy through execution, helping organisations build the foundations for better decisions, smarter operations, and sustainable digital growth. Zurich Per Agreement 100% Advisory Everyone welcome ID: 762840WD

Your Impact

• Lead impactful initiatives across data quality, ownership, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management to ensure data is reliable, transparent, and ready to power advanced analytics, automation, and AI use cases.
• Shape and improve enterprise data platforms from an architectural, operational, and user adoption perspective, with a strong focus on data observability, data quality, and platform readiness for AI.
• Support the end-to-end creation of data products by translating business requirements into data definitions, models, transformation logic, quality rules, and usable outputs on modern cloud data platforms.
• Build effective governance processes, forums, and decision-making mechanisms that create clarity, accountability, and lasting adoption across the organisation.
• Create high-value client deliverables including target operating models, data platform blueprints, governance playbooks, policies, and implementation roadmaps that accelerate the journey toward modern data platforms and AI-enabled business models.
• Drive business development and market growth by shaping propositions, developing proposals, contributing to RfP responses, supporting commercial discussions, and identifying opportunities to expand client relationships.
• Contribute to market growth and business development by supporting proposals, RfP responses, solution design, pricing, and commercial discussions for data, analytics, platform, and AI-related opportunities.
• Coach and develop team members by providing guidance, feedback, and day-to-day leadership that strengthens delivery quality and builds the next generation of data and AI consultants.
• Stay ahead of the market by continuously expanding your expertise in emerging technologies, modern data platforms, AI, and industry trends to help clients unlock new sources of value.

Your Skill Set

• A degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related field; advanced degrees or relevant executive education are an advantage.
• Significant consulting experience in an international, client-facing environment, with a strong track record of managing workstreams or projects within data, technology, analytics, or digital transformation programmes.
• Commercial mindset and proposal experience including contribution to sales opportunities, solution design, pricing, and client relationship development.
• Experience leading workshops and engaging senior stakeholders across business and technology functions, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and build alignment around pragmatic solutions.
• Strong expertise in, and understanding of, core data management and governance concepts such as data quality, metadata, master data, ownership, and their role in enabling data-driven transformation.
• Hands-on experience in data governance or data management initiatives, data catalogues or metadata solutions, data migration, or data transformation projects in an international environment.
• Practical experience with enterprise data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or Databricks, combined with a solid understanding of supporting architecture and data platform engineering concepts.
• Interest in, and conceptual understanding of, business process analytics, ideally with hands-on experience in technologies such as Celonis or Signavio.
• Recognised technical data and AI certifications such as DAMA CDMP, Microsoft DP-900, AZ-900, AI-900, DP-600, DP-700, Snowflake SnowPro Core, Databricks Data Analyst / Data Engineer, or similar are a plus.
• Experience working in cross-functional and international teams, both in person and remotely.
• Excellent written, spoken, and visual communication skills in English and German; additional languages are an advantage.

Your Benefits

Hybrid Flexible Working Model

Our work model enables you to spend part of your time working in the office and part at home (provided this is your preference) – unless you’re at your clients’ premises, which is of course always the priority. This approach allows you to tailor your schedule to your personal working style.

Learn and Grow

Our learning and development approach helps you gain valuable skills and knowledge to advance your career, not just at PwC. We offer a variety of internal and external courses for training and upskilling. Identify your strengths and areas for improvement and gain new skills to achieve your professional goals. You’ll build confidence, enhance your job performance, and take your career to the next level.

Sustainable Performance

PwC is committed to creating an environment of sustainable performance. We therefore offer a range of resources such as sustainable performance workshops, self-leadership trainings, resilience and mindfulness sessions, nutrition webinars, and yoga courses.

Vacation and Leave

From maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to vacation and paid leave, we know it’s essential to take time away from work. At PwC, you can enjoy a variety of leave options to recharge, relax, or achieve personal milestones.

Volunteering

Are you passionate about doing good and making a difference? That’s great, because so are we at PwC. We encourage you to participate in volunteer work by offering paid time off for volunteering activities. Our Corporate Sustainability programmes help you find purpose and fulfilment while working with us.

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About PwC

Grow here. Go further. At PwC Switzerland, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We're part of a tech-forward, people-empowered network and help clients build, accelerate and sustain momentum across audit, assurance, tax, legal, workforce, deals and consulting. offices employees women nationalities average age million CHF gross revenue PwC Switzerland and Liechtenstein PwC Zurich: Birchstrasse 160, 8050 Zurich PwC Aarau: Bleichemattstrasse 43, 5000 Aarau PwC Basel: St. Jakobs-Strasse 25, 4052 Basel PwC Bern: Bahnhofplatz 10, 3001 Bern PwC Geneva: Avenue Giuseppe-Motta 50, 1202 Geneva PwC Lausanne: Avenue Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 45, 1009 Pully PwC Lugano: Piazza Indipendenza 1, 6900 Lugano PwC Lucerne: Robert-Zünd-Strasse 2, 6005 Lucerne PwC Neuchâtel: Rue des Epancheurs 6, 2000 Neuchâtel PwC St. Gallen: Kornhausstrasse 25, 9000 St. Gallen PwC Winterthur: Bahnhofplatz 8, 8400 Winterthur PwC Zug: Dammstrasse 21, 6300 Zug PwC Ruggell, Liechtenstein: Industriering 40, 9491 Ruggell

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