Specialized It Consultant - Intermediate

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 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
• 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.
• Establishes the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver.
• Provides subject matter expertise in their field and highly expert technical assistance.

General Skills:

• Liaise with IT specialists, unit leads and relevant stakeholders
• 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
• 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
• Familiar with change-management principles and methodology
• Facilitates and leads in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design
• Prepares reports and presentations including options, recommendations, implementation plans, etc.
• Analyzes I&IT requirements giving independent and objective advice on the use of I&IT
• 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
• 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
• Acts as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Conduct and participate in walkthroughs at each project milestone in accordance with project schedule
• Develops processes and procedures for implementing deliverables
• Works with clients to define the scope of a project and to determine requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Experience with Agile project methodology
• Strong communications, consultations and interpersonal skills to determine client needs
• Experience in transposing requirements/user stories into content design using a CMS (Content Management System) or DB implemented content.
• Experience transposing requirements into coherent user stories
• Experience working with both the business users and IT development teams

Core Skills:

• Experience working with data sources such as relational DB or CMS
• Meets with the Product Owner to understand the team’s work
• Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories
• Breaks epics down into stories and defines acceptance criteria in each story
• Experience establishing the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver
• Expert in detailed analysis, conversations, and documentation that all user stories call for
• Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
• Provides the team with the context they need, i.e., what part of The Big Picture they’re working on
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to assess clients' business priorities and needs; to evaluate business and technical design alternatives
• Requirements documentation experience in the format of concise and clear user stories
• Experience in leading and facilitating in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design.
• Experience to ensure the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are accurate, well-understood, and documented
• Explain and present very complex technical analyses, options, proposals, reports and recommendations to clients
• 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
• 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.
• Experience in transposing requirements/user stories into content design – preferably using a CMS (Content Management System) or DB implemented content.
• Experience with Agile project methodology
• 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 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
• 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

Technical Skills:

• Experience with design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/ hardware
• 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
• Working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice
• Experience with large projects implementation that use content management systems or relational DB as back-end storage repositories
• Experience with Agile project methodology

Communication Skills:

• 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