Responsibilities:
- Works in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization s I&IT systems.
- The I&IT Consultant may be used to provide strategic guidance to organizations with regard to Information Management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT.
- Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.
- The I&IT Consultant is responsible for, but not limited to ensuring the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are well-understood, documented, and accurate.
- Facilitates and leads in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design.
- Establishes the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver.
- Acts as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable.
- Work in partnership with clients advising them on information technology aspects to meet their business objectives or overcome challenges, and work to improve efficiency of an organization s I&IT systems.
- Responsible for, but not limited to ensuring the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are accurate, well-understood, and documented.
- Facilitates and leads in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design.
- Lead a cross functional team of technical solution design and collaborate with program area and external vendors toward implementation of the project scope on time and budget.
- Liaise with IT specialists, unit leads and relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct and participate in walkthroughs at each project milestone in accordance with project schedule.
- Provide the quality assurance/quality control of specific deliverables.
- Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations.
- Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables.
- Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, implementation plans, etc.
- Works with clients to define the scope of a project and to determine requirements.
- Analyzes I&IT requirements giving independent and objective advice on the use of I&IT.
- Familiar with change-management principles and methodology.
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices.
Core Skills - 45%:
- Experience in leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design.
- Experience to feed work to the team and dedicated to looking ahead at upcoming work and grooming requirements so that they re well-understood, documented, and ready to go.
- Experience with Agile project methodology.
- Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories.
- Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead.
- Experience to ensure the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are accurate, well-understood, and documented.
- Requirements documentation experience in the format of concise and clear user stories.
- Breaks epics down into stories and defines acceptance criteria in each story.
- Provides the team with the context they need, i.e., what part of The Big Picture they re working on.
- Expert in detailed analysis, conversations, and documentation that all user stories call for.
- Experience establishing the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver.
- Meets with the Product Owner to understand the team s work.
- Story writer experience, make sure the myriad pieces of information that are discussed during a team standup are included in the stories details, decisions, and dependencies, are documented in the in the right user story.
- Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team, where the role will answers questions or facilitates decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner.
- Explain and present very complex technical analyses, options, proposals, reports and recommendations to clients.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs. to evaluate business and technical design alternatives.
- Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams to ensure business requirements are properly reflected in the system design and technical specifications.
- Experience with user testing working with UI/UX designer and other business analysts to plan user testing sessions including screening and recruiting, facilitate user testing sessions, document and present research findings.
- Experience in transposing requirements/user stories into content design preferably using a CMS (Content Management System) or DB implemented content.
- Experience working with data sources such as relational DB or CMS.
- Working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice.
- Experience with design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/ hardware.
- Experience with Agile project methodology.
- Experience with large projects implementation that use content management systems or relational DB as back-end storage repositories.
- Experience with advanced application prototyping using various prototyping tools e.g.
- Axure RP7 and above Experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows based systems.
- Hands-on experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps.
- Strong communication, consultation and interpersonal skills to determine client needs.
- Strong collaboration skills, proven experience of working with solution development, business area and operational departments to ensure all day-to-day priorities/issues are addressed in a timely manner.
- Explain technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences.
- Establish effective working relationships with I&IT management, clients, internal and external partners/ stakeholders and project staff.
- Communication skills to discuss client requirements among other technical team members.
- To discuss of systems development options and technical processes among project team.
- To discuss with clients, development and operational recommendations given limitations and considerations.
- Writings kills to prepare project reports and presentations to explain analysis and recommendations.
- To prepare business cases for recommended approach to systems development or acquisitions.
- To prepare systems documentation and manuals.
- To prepare metrics and dashboard reports.
- To prepare research finding summary reports.