OCM Product Assessment Consultant
About The Position
Sabot Consulting is assembling an independent assessment team to conduct a one-time retrospective assessment lasting four months of a large, multi-year public-sector enterprise modernization program. This is an assessment engagement, not an implementation. You will not build, configure, integrate, remediate, or operate anything. You will examine what has already been built, review the evidence, interview the people who built it, and reach independent, defensible conclusions for executive leadership. Independence from the program's implementation vendors is a contractual requirement of the engagement. The scope covers nine assessment domains and 65 discrete assessment requirements: program governance and risk, business process alignment, architecture and design, integration and data management, mainframe and legacy modernization, security and privacy compliance, software development lifecycle and configuration management, testing and quality assurance, and operational readiness. The technology environment includes a major cloud customer relationship management platform, a public cloud infrastructure estate, an enterprise integration platform, a content management platform, intelligent document processing, and a mainframe lift-and-refactor migration. Deliverables include an assessment management plan, an initial assessment report, recurring status briefings, per-domain assessment reports, readiness assessments, an executive briefing, and a final assessment report. You will work full time for four months in a small paired-team structure alongside senior peers. Findings go directly to executive leadership and to a legislative oversight body.
Requirements
- 8 or more years in operational readiness, transition, or cutover assessment.
- Experience with go-live and release readiness assessment (entry and exit criteria, readiness evidence, acceptance criteria, and stage gates).
- Experience with cutover simulation and rollback plan assessment.
- Experience reviewing plans and execution evidence.
- Experience with support model assessment, incident, problem, and change management, and post-release stabilization.
- Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity assessment.
- Experience with organizational change management (adoption planning, communications effectiveness, workforce readiness, and adoption measurement).
- Experience with deployment sequencing relative to operational peak cycles.
- Ability to work full time for four months in a small paired-team structure.
- Independence from the program's implementation vendors.
Nice To Haves
- Public-sector go-live experience where failure would have been publicly visible.
Responsibilities
- Conduct a one-time retrospective assessment of a public-sector enterprise modernization program.
- Examine existing systems, review evidence, and interview stakeholders.
- Reach independent and defensible conclusions for executive leadership.
- Assess program governance and risk.
- Evaluate business process alignment.
- Analyze architecture and design.
- Assess integration and data management.
- Review mainframe and legacy modernization efforts.
- Evaluate security and privacy compliance.
- Assess software development lifecycle and configuration management.
- Evaluate testing and quality assurance processes.
- Assess operational readiness.
- Prepare an assessment management plan.
- Develop an initial assessment report.
- Provide recurring status briefings.
- Produce per-domain assessment reports.
- Conduct readiness assessments.
- Prepare an executive briefing.
- Deliver a final assessment report.
- Assess operational readiness, transition, or cutover.
- Evaluate go-live and release readiness, including entry and exit criteria, readiness evidence, acceptance criteria, and stage gates.
- Assess cutover simulation and rollback plans (reviewing plans and execution evidence, not executing them).
- Assess support models, incident, problem, and change management, and post-release stabilization.
- Assess high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Evaluate organizational change management, including adoption planning, communications effectiveness, workforce readiness, and adoption measurement.
- Assess deployment sequencing relative to operational peak cycles.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
