IT Consultant Principal - Digital Strategy
Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: June 21, 2022
Job Description:
Digital Strategy & Insights (DSI) is a team within KP Digital
focused on creating consumer-facing digital health experiences.
Digital is no longer a channel; the emphasis is now focused on
using digital as an enabler of improving physical and virtual
end-to-end experiences. As interactions with our members evolve
from periodic touchpoints via a screen to consistent, connected
experiences, we must create new engagements that are deeply
integrated between digital and physical.
We are a diverse team of strategic, empathetic thinkers and doers,
who envision and craft experiences from strategy to digital
prototypes. Knowing our business, understanding our consumers, and
anchoring to our digital-first enterprise vision are at the core of
our process. Our team partners with senior leadership to deliver
high impact projects. We help Business Leaders, Product Managers,
Engineers, UX, and other functions build amazing digital products
and experiences that delight consumers.
The Strategy & Innovation practice, within DSI, co-creates
actionable strategic narratives for how digital will deliver
business and consumer value, while incubating and validating
early-stage ideas. The team focuses on setting and communicating
the direction for how digital will help to achieve enterprise
strategies and value.
The Digital Experience Strategist is accountable for all aspects of
the work to facilitate and guide cross-functional teams in digital
strategy formation to ensure framing, problem definition, and
approach align with consumer needs, business objectives, and
internal efforts. Activities will focus on discovering, shaping,
and validating digital prototypes and championing a culture of
innovation. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that is
creating a positive impact for our members, patients, and
communities by creating the next level of experience in health
care.
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.
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:
- MBA/MPH/MHA
- Accustomed to working collaboratively with customers and
cross-functional team members - demonstrate influence and impact in
a matrixed environment with cross-group and cross-level
coordination
- Naturally engaging people at a deep level whether observing or
interviewing customers, working with fellow team members and
business stakeholders, and demonstrating an innate creative
perspective
- A visual and verbal storyteller, delivering insights and
strategic narrative in a way that generates empathy, emotion,
action, and engagement from teams
- Product Management expertise, with specific knowledge on
product discovery practices and agile methodology
- Know or ability to learn new software quickly; experience with
Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Axure,
Confluence, or JIRA is a plus.
- Passionate about creating experiences that fuse physical and
digital through research, analytics, design, and delivery.
- Have presence, can communicate well with senior leaders, and
facilitate discussions across multiple stakeholder groups
- Meet deadlines and drive results while being comfortable with
ambiguity in a fluid organization
- Proven track record of planning and driving multiple projects
in parallel, anticipating risk, articulating deliverables, and
meeting deadlines
Location options: CA, GA, WA, CO, OR, DC, MD or NY. (With the
option of working mostly remote)
PrimaryLocation : California,Pasadena,East Annex - Parsons
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri,
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-IT-01-NUE-Non Union
Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Information Technology,Digital
Department : KPIT ADMIN - KPD Strtgy Insights - 9601
Travel : No
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.
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