Technology Strategy, Senior Principal

Publicis Groupe•Chicago, IL

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Technology Strategy Senior Principal, you will actively participate in the growth and development of the newly formed Technology Strategy & Advisory practice at Publicis Sapient. Your role will focus on shaping goal-oriented Digital Business Transformations for our clients and delivering strategic advice in the early stages of these transformations. You will work in multidisciplinary teams comprised of business strategists, experience strategists, and data strategists to formulate recommendations that address customer needs and frame downstream work.

Requirements

10+ years of Strategy and/or Technology Consulting experience within a global major consulting firm
Prior experience with large-scale transformations within corporate strategy at a global scale and reach
Experience with product mindset and Agile ways of working
Thorough understanding of the key components of consumer-focused technology including interactive, marketing, commerce, loyalty, personalization, transactional, integration/API, cloud, and data
Ability to interpret and create typical technology artifacts, business context diagrams, system architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, database structure diagrams
Ability to navigate a large organization and have the power of persuasion through content and confidence
Experience with IT transformation including modern operating models and organization structures
Design and facilitate effective client workshops to accelerate current state understanding, identify opportunities, and build consensus across a broad set of business and IT stakeholders

Responsibilities

Lead large teams to deliver value-accretive technology strategy and transformation
Actively participate in the entrepreneurial construction of the technology strategy consulting team: support recruiting process, define ways of working, contribute thought leadership
Devise technology strategy related product offerings, proposals and develop new business
Effectively manage team to produce quality client recommendations
Build trusted relationship with clients based on credibility and active listening
Provide thought leadership to shape and scope top-down “answer” on building digital business transformation road maps