Strategic Technology Solutions Consultant
Vanguard
Strategic Technology Solutions Consultant / Architect
Partners with the business and IT leaders to shape people, process, and technology solutions for meeting business goals. Proactively identifies opportunities and demonstrates possibilities that technology can enable.
Core Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic and cost-effective people, process, and technology solution alternatives for business opportunities/problems. Ensure alignment of solutions with business strategy and OKRs
- Strategically advise internal business partners on how technology, education and process innovation can help meet their business goals – helping them figure out which products should be adopted and/or enhanced to drive their strategy forward.
- Builds productive working relationships with key partners to ensure recommendations and priorities are understood by all impacted parties. Leverages influencing and negotiation skills to champion optimal solutions. Acts as an advocate for change to introduce new technologies and processes to shape the business strategy.
- Leverages broad IT knowledge to research emerging technologies and apply to business problems. Creates blueprint capabilities for software, middleware and hardware deliverables. Ensures all deliverables comply with IT policies and procedures.
- Defines complex problems authoritatively, using research (market, competitive, and consultant), Design Thinking, Lean techniques, System Architecture guidelines, and other techniques, as necessary.
- Partners with business and IT leaders to align business initiatives, priorities, and schedules based on strategic business and IT plans.
- Influences the broad organization by leveraging knowledge of existing technology solutions and options, and the research that needs to be done to find new options.
- Owns and manages the capability landscape for one or more lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves. Develops deep knowledge of the business area(s) supported and the competitive landscape to provide context for decision-making.
- Maintains a comprehensive understanding of business functions. Combines technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to business problems.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Strategic Technology Solutions Consultant / Architect
Partners with the business and IT leaders to shape people, process, and technology solutions for meeting business goals. Proactively identifies opportunities and demonstrates possibilities that technology can enable.
Core Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic and cost-effective people, process, and technology solution alternatives for business opportunities/problems. Ensure alignment of solutions with business strategy and OKRs
- Strategically advise internal business partners on how technology, education and process innovation can help meet their business goals – helping them figure out which products should be adopted and/or enhanced to drive their strategy forward.
- Builds productive working relationships with key partners to ensure recommendations and priorities are understood by all impacted parties. Leverages influencing and negotiation skills to champion optimal solutions. Acts as an advocate for change to introduce new technologies and processes to shape the business strategy.
- Leverages broad IT knowledge to research emerging technologies and apply to business problems. Creates blueprint capabilities for software, middleware and hardware deliverables. Ensures all deliverables comply with IT policies and procedures.
- Defines complex problems authoritatively, using research (market, competitive, and consultant), Design Thinking, Lean techniques, System Architecture guidelines, and other techniques, as necessary.
- Partners with business and IT leaders to align business initiatives, priorities, and schedules based on strategic business and IT plans.
- Influences the broad organization by leveraging knowledge of existing technology solutions and options, and the research that needs to be done to find new options.
- Owns and manages the capability landscape for one or more lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves. Develops deep knowledge of the business area(s) supported and the competitive landscape to provide context for decision-making.
- Maintains a comprehensive understanding of business functions. Combines technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to business problems.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.