Functional Consultant

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Responsibilities

• 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.
• Translates business problems into strategic and cost-effective technology solution alternatives.
• 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.
• 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.
• Prior experience in financial services firm preferably investment management.
• Program Management and Solution Discovery experience.

Required Skills: Project Management

Basic Qualification:

Additional Skills: Consultant

This is a high PRIORITY requisition.