Principal IT Business Partner

As a Principal IT Business Partner, you will serve as the primary interface between domain stakeholders and IT, ensuring alignment between domain priorities, technology strategy, demand, and delivery outcomes. You will report directly to the Director, IT Transformation Management Office (TMO) & Business Partners.In this role, you will serve as the strategic IT Business Partner for a Strategic Business Group (SBG), region, or functional domain, acting as the primary liaison between domain leadership and IT. You will help shape domain demand, align technology investments to strategic priorities, and ensure successful delivery of domain outcomes through effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and value realization. Rather than serving as a functional subject matter expert, you will leverage domain acumen and technology leadership to connect domain strategy with enterprise capabilities, delivery teams, and transformation initiatives.At Solstice, our people are critical to our success. Success in this role will be defined by your ability to build strong partnerships with Solstice IT professionals and vendors, develop a deep understanding of domain functions, and minimize friction between domain expectations and IT delivery.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESBusiness Stakeholder Alignment- Serve as the primary IT advisor to the domain, building trusted relationships and ensuring alignment between domain priorities and IT strategy.- Translate domain objectives into prioritized IT roadmaps, investments, and outcomes.- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and alignment gaps through effective governance and stakeholder engagement.Technology Lifecycle Management and Process Enablement- Partner with domain leadership to translate domain priorities into integrated roadmap and technology portfolio.- Drive alignment, integration, and automation across end-to-end processes to improve practitioner experience, data quality, and operational efficiency.- Ensure solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data, cybersecurity, and any other relevant standards.Business Strategy Alignment- Align domain priorities with IT strategy, roadmaps, and investment plans.- Identify opportunities to improve domain performance through process optimization, automation, analytics, and digital capabilities.- Provide strategic technLead IT demand intake, prioritization, and domain case development to maximize domain value and strategic alignment.- Align initiatives with enterprise architecture, portfolio objectives, and funding priorities.- Facilitate governance decisions by providing transparency into investments, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.Cross-IT Coordination & Delivery Alignment- Coordinate across IT (TMO, Enterprise Architecture, delivery teams, service owners, and Business Partners) to ensure demand is effectively shaped, funded, and executed.- Drive alignment across cross-functional dependencies, shared platforms, and delivery timelines.- Ensure domain requirements are accurately represented through delivery and solution implementation.Value Realization & Outcomes- Ensure the domain defines and validates benefit measures, and holds ownership for tracking adoption, realizing benefits, and performance against business case objectives.- Establish feedback loops with stakeholders to continuously improve solutions, processes, and portfolio outcomes.- Provide transparency on progress, risks, and outcomes to support stakeholder and executive decision-making.