Why Corporate Culture Matters

• Communicate with business users to identify requirements.  
• Clearly articulate requirements to IT personnel and work with them to identify solutions that:  

• Take advantage of existing IT assets and resources
• Meet business requirements
• Integrate with client's existing application portfolio
• Meet existing client technical architecture requirements

• Review business requirements, define components of target solutions, and identify existing package software products that will meet business requirements.
• Build business case for proposed solutions and "sell" proposals to client IT- and business-management.
• Lead projects through the stages of high-level design, scope definition, detail design, and delivery planning.
• Work with project manager during development and deployment phases to ensure that project meets design, schedule, and budget constraints set forth in initial project plan.
• Escalate problems and issues to project, department, and corporate leadership, as needed, to ensure that project meets design, schedule, and budget constraints set forth in initial project plan.
• Report progress and budget status to project sponsor and stakeholders.

• Strong business acumen  
• Understand importance of capital and operational expenses in setting project budgets and their influence on solution design, project planning, and problem solving.  
• Be able to read financial statements and converse with financial officers and business owners to build business case for projects and calculate project return on investment (ROI).
• Display forward thinking  
• Consider new products, vendor-offerings, new and emerging technologies, changes in client industry, and how to best position client IT investments to take advantage of future developments.
• Understand Architectural Frameworks and Business Domain  
• Understand project life-cycle and business-solution life-cycle.
• Understand available enterprise frameworks and their value to project execution.  
• Select, modify (when necessary), and use design and delivery methodology.  
• Understand operational frameworks and processes and how the business solution will be managed through and after deployment.   
• Leverage deep knowledge of business domain
• Apply business domain knowledge and leverage ability to learn quickly.  
• Demonstrate knowledge of business domain during problem definition, solution design and architecture, implementation planning, and user adoption phases of projects.
• Enhance current knowledge though research, participation in industry and support groups, and association with subject matter experts.
• Investigate new products and technologies
• Investigate new trends in technology and IT business applications.  
• Provide topical and current opinions that are relevant to the current project phase.
• Work well with ambiguous and incomplete information
• Seek additional information to identify best approach for business solutions.
• During project execution, evaluate trade-offs and make decisions needed to ensure that solution continues to meet design, schedule, and budget constraints set forth in initial project plan.

• Three to ten years of industry and/or consulting experience.
• Several years experience in the areas of: IT transformation; business process re-engineering; functional and technical design; package software selection; and system development, implementation, and testing.
• Understanding of business drivers; business operations including:  processes, organizations, systems, and data; technology enablers, and industry vendors and applications.

Bachelor degree in Business or Computer Science
MBA or similarly relevant advanced degree preferred