Job Requisition Number: 330595
Job Title: IT Strategy and Business Alignment Strategist II
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Location: 3200 Beechleaf Court
Raleigh, North Carolina 27604-0000
Additional Job Details: Tracking No. 10C47
External Description:

Line of Business: OPS - IT SERVICES Job Category: Pending Categorization Primary Purpose: The experienced forward-thinking senior-level business technology expert leverages business knowledge and partnerships, technology trends, architectural principles and competitive research to develop business technology strategies that optimize the lines of business in the corporation and facilitate rapid growth. Analyzes business drivers, challenges, future opportunities and corporate objectives to develop strategies and plans that are grounded in industry-proven architecture and technology principles (e.g., application portfolio management, IT/business alignment, IT governance, speed to market, stability and IT optimization). Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other Duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time. 1. Develop strong partnership with business and IT leaders to design long-term business technology strategies and plans that drive value to the business, IT and the enterprise. 2. Work collaboratively with colleagues and senior leadership to assess the current business and IT environments, define key objectives, identify success factors and comprehend constraints related to clients' IT challenges. 3. Clearly communicate strategic direction to senior management and to the broader organization. Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior business leaders, providing leadership, coordination, guidance and influence in the development of strategies and strategic vision. 4. Develop and manage an enterprise standard planning process that articulates strategic and tactical plans, financial goals and dependencies. 5. Initiate and facilitate change efforts, align resources, overcome resistance and engage/motivate others to ensure successful implementation of strategies. 6. Leverage competitive research, industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies to support development of business technology strategies and plans. Required Skills and Competencies: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 1. Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field or equivalent technical work experience 2. Ability to drive strategic focus and value from business challenges and opportunities and express complex technical concepts in terms that are understandable to multi-disciplinary teams, in verbal and written form 3. Ability to grasp the "big picture" for a solution by considering all potential options and impacted areas 4. Aptitude to understand and adapt to new and emerging technologies 5. Presentation, language and written communications: Exhibit superior professional skill in presenting facts, data, ideas, processes, status and situational urgency in all forums whether it is written, verbal, or informal 6. Strategic/systems thinking: Understand the connections and relationships across functions and entities for internal and external constituencies; think appropriately into the future Desired Skills 1. Financial services industry experience 2. Industry-accredited certifications in one or more shared IT infrastructures, such as servers, next-generation networks, web and Internet-based systems, storage, call centers, content management, collaboration tools, on-line channel, data center optimization, payment solutions, Six Sigma or other process improvement methods, etc.
Tracking No. 10C47