IT Consultant VI, Storage and Data Protection Principal (Greensboro, NC)

Tech Summary

This IT Consultant VI position is looking for an Experienced Leader in the subject matter areas of enterprise-class Data Protection and Storage Solutions. This position interacts with Customers and Vendors alike, along with regular and structured interactions with KP-s Executive Leaders. Technology Infrastructure Services is part of Infrastructure Platform Operations Group with the mission of providing KP-s Business Units and Partners with the best infrastructure to meet their needs, enhance their user-experience, and lower risk and cost to KP throughout this journey. We follow the ITSM model in KP, and this role in general terms can be described as a Service Component Lead (SCL) role. SCLs prepare Strategic Roadmaps, evangelize new solutions in KP, work collaboratively across cross-functional teams, and prioritize KP-s organizational objectives around patient care and delivery. 

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:

• Bachelors 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.