Solution Consultant

California  ‐ Onsite
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The Solution Consultant, Principal, is accountable for providing complex integrated systems plans and technology alternatives that will meet business requirements, business goals and corporate goals. The role oversees the assessment of business requirements, collection and identification of technical specifications, and the subsequent development of technology components that are required to deliver a complete solution that meets stakeholder objectives. This role may be associated with one-to-many tracks of work with project cost estimates between $1M to $20M. Affected solutions will impact national initiatives, cross-portfolio operations, or multiple sites and/or regions.

The Solution Consultant, Principal, is accountable for timeliness and quality of all Solution Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) activities and deliverables within the Concept and Definition phases.

This includes, but is not limited to:
Directing the development of comprehensive and strategic business cases used at management and executive levels for scoping and funding proposed projects and programs;
Ensuring the appropriate business process assessment and analysis is completed to identify business process gaps and impacts as they pertain directly to projects and programs;
Orchestrating activities and providing structure and direction to others regarding standard techniques and tools to gather the appropriate set of functional and non-functional requirements in an organized and repeatable way;
Developing strategies and plans to assess impacts and potential risks of solution alternatives, and to identify solution component sharing and opportunities for re-use
Creating RFIs/RFPs as necessary to compare packaged solution alternatives from external vendors and partners
Evaluating the design and capabilities of multiple solution components (eg, business, data, applications, and infrastructure) whether purchased from vendor or developed in-house;
Maintaining traceability between goals, requirements, and conceptual, logical, and physical solution components (including aspects of people, process, technology, and information).

The role also oversees or acts as project lead in the coordination of solution development and the implementation of the final product/service. The Solution Consultant, Principal, acts as a liaison between senior executives, business clients and technical staff throughout the SDLC for complex projects, while providing on-going project management and status reporting at all levels. This role may also oversee or develop project plans, coordinate with other project managers and manage common resource demands.

Requisite Abilities and/or Skills
MUST HAVE at least 3 years of Configuration Management or Asset Management experience in a Solution Consultant role
Influential leadership in promoting best practices and successful project management and solution delivery within all levels of the organization
Critical analysis and problem-solving skills applied to project issues and broad design matters
Business analysis, business process and systems modelling
Coaching and mentoring lower level resources
Collaboration, meeting facilitation and adaptive communication
ITIL v3 Foundational knowledge

Minimum Education and/or Experience
B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related major;
15+ years of IT/business experience, more specifically systems development, engineering and/or systems analysis

Start date
n.a
From
Enclipse Corp.
Published at
17.05.2013
Project ID:
538030
Contract type
Freelance
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