Enterprise Technology Strategy Consultant

JOB SUMMARY
Expectations from this role:
1. Works with stakeholders at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives; supporting business unit managers as they leverage business architecture and product development artifacts to create and implement client business plans.
2. Provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various scenarios, and delivery of bottom line value to the business
3. Help client business and leadership team with problem definition
4. Lead business and technology consulting projects to deliver client objectives
5. Perform assessments of client business processes, organizational change, IT processes, and technology landscape; identifying transformational recommendations
6. Develop a business and technical architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
7. Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing key views of the enterprise.
8. Guide a team to capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization; and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
9. Guide a team to describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
10. Guide a team to define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business. Identify which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
11. Guide a team to define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between the data.
12. Guide a team to capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Typical performance measures:
1. Transformational value delivered to customer
2. Utilization in billable roles
3. Customer feedback
4. Number of certifications obtained
5. Number of reusable components designed for Co Es

Performance Areas:
Design and Implementation Support:
1. Understand the business requirements from the analyst and create a mapping document, if required (specific to integration)
2. Evaluate technical requirements (e.g. number of interfaces required, maps required for each interface etc.); understand the design concepts to be used
3. Study the best practices for design and jointly design the solution; review the design for potential flaws; verify the design with CoE
Practice Development:
1. Provide feedback on current gaps with internal processes that can be improved
Knowledge Management:
1. Identify best practices, tools and solution accelerators for products in the solution area; bring in the existing solution accelerators, reusable assets, etc.
2. Review the solutions and identify opportunity to create reusable assets, solution accelerators, etc.
3. Stay up to date with new developments in the product and technology solution area under purview
4. Analyze the best in class solutions and design aspects, track industry trends and draw insights
Solution Development:
1. Build understanding of new solutions and develop delivery capability
2. Assist in creation of new solutions by providing inputs and insights
Product Selection:
1. Collaborate with the product selection group to identify the best suited product to meet the project requirements; provide inputs on product features, as required
Technology Consulting Advisory:
1. Engage with client…