Principal IT Consultant-Architecture

Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Important Update: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser Permanente is moving to a virtual recruitment process including telephone and video interviews to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, candidates, and communities. Also, some hiring activities may be delayed or suspended in certain geographic areas and job categories. For more information on Kaiser Permanente’s response to COVID-19, visit our Resource Center .

Description: 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. As a Principal IT Consultant , you will participate in various aspects Software Development Life Cycle with the focus on requirement and solution design and architecture. You will partner with various groups within IT and Business to service our business leaders and to represent the sales and marketing team. As Team member, must be a results oriented self starter individual who can effectively navigate within the complex organization within the region and across multiple portfolios.

The individual will lead the solution design team to effectively manage the design work and demonstrate to the senior management including VPs IT and Business to gain alignment. Excellent communication skill required along with industry knowledge of solution trends/landscape across both technical and business domains. The individual must demonstrate solid architectural knowledge in Cloud Native Solutions and other cloud platform as a service such as IBM Cloud, Azure or AWS and knowledge of industry best practices in digital solutions such as Adobe suite of products preferred.

Successful candidates will have a proven track record of partnering effectively with customers in delivering results in complex situations and have the proven ability to establish a strong and trusting relationship with business leaders and IT stakeholders. The individual must have solid problem solving skills combine d with the ability to manage effectively with ambiguous requirements

Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning 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 by leveraging partnerships with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture).

Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) 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 (TCO) 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field and 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Five (5) years experience working for a health care organization

Five (5) years experience working for an IT organization

Four (4) years experience working on projects or programs requiring the integration of cross-functional technology and/or business solutions.

Five (5) years experience in workflow analysis, including the use of modeling software (e.g., Visio).

Five (5) years in a leadership role working with project or technical teams.

Five (5) years experience working on cross-functional project teams

Six (6) years experience in business case development and analysis

Four (4) years experience managing vendor relationships.

Four (4) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)

Master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field

Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or other comparable business analyst or IT consulting certification

Primary Location: California,Pasadena,West Annex - Parsons 74 N. Pasadena Ave. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon-Fri Working Hours Start: 8:00 AM Working Hours End: 4:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: Salaried, Non-Union, Exempt Job Level: Individual Contributor Job Category: Information Technology Specialty: IT Consulting Department: Individual & Family Sales Development Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with federal and state laws, as well as applicable local ordinances, including but not limited to the San Francisco and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.

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