Principal IT Consultant (Strategy & Tech Enablement)

Kaiser Permanente • Pasadena, CA

81d

About The Position

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for serving as the lead technical expert across project teams, setting technical direction across technical solutions, and overseeing all IT systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field.
• Minimum ten (10) years experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field.
• Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs.
• Develops and updates new procedures and policies.
• Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities.
• Translates business strategy into actionable business requirements.
• Obtains and distributes resources.
• Sets standards and measures progress.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance.
• Guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly.
• Solves highly complex issues.
• Influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback.
• Builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Communicates information and provides advice to drive projects forward.
• Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities.
• Provides feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership.
• Influences, mentors, and coaches team members.
• Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Evaluates and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members.
• Adapts to and learns from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Leads a team of IT consultants in the development of requirements for process or system solutions which may span multiple business domains.
• Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements across the enterprise.
• Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership of highly unique or complex solution proposals.
• Leads the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by translating how current processes impact business operations across the enterprise.
• Leads teams of IT Consultants in the mapping of current state against future state processes.
• Defines the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
• Provides insight and influence to executive management and business leaders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across the enterprise.
• Reviews, evaluates, and prioritizes value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Leads solution design by translating requirements into workable business solutions and leading in design sessions with IT teams.
• Recommends and advocates for additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.
• Leads the evaluation of third-party vendors as directed.
• Drives continuous process improvement by leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across the enterprise.
• Recommends and advocates for regional and national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree