Join our team as a Strategic IT Consultant to lead the development of multi-year product and service strategies through comprehensive assessments, strategic analysis, and business case development. You'll evaluate current state maturity, identify capability gaps, and define future-state architectures aligned with industry best practices and OPS governance. In this hybrid role (3 days onsite/2 days remote), you'll collaborate with stakeholders across all levels to facilitate workshops, conduct cost-benefit analyses, and develop actionable implementation roadmaps. Ideal for professionals with deep experience in ITS strategy, business transformation, and stakeholder engagement within the public sector and complex IT environments.
Deliverables:
1. Conduct Current State Assessments:
- Performs comprehensive analysis, including technical, process, skills and financial assessments, of ITS products and services in consultation with relevant stakeholders;
- Assess product/service maturity;
- Identifies capability gaps relative to client requirements and industry best practices;
- Documents all findings in a formal report.
2. Perform Strategic Options Analysis:
- Leads workshops with stakeholders to define service vision and identify expected business benefits and outcomes;
- Consults with industry and perform jurisdictional scans of peer organizations to inform options selection;
- Develops final list of potential options guided by industry best practice and informed through stakeholder and industry consultations;
- Performs cost/benefit analysis for each option considered;
- Documents all findings in a formal report.
3. Define Strategic Target State:
- Leads target state definition workshops in collaboration with service/product leads and relevant stakeholders;
- Works with users and stakeholders to develop business requirements and metrics;
- Documents high-level target state architecture;
- Refines cost analysis for the new target state;
- Develops gap analysis report for technology, processes and people;
- Develops high-level roadmap/implementation plan to achieve target state;
- Documents all findings in a formal report.
4. Lead Business Case Development:
- Leads the development of ITS Business Cases for ITS strategies in collaboration with ITS corporate procurement, relevant stakeholders, and in compliance with OPS governance and policies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the development of multi-year service/product strategies;
- Development and standardized application of best-practice methodologies and frameworks;
- Leading strategic initiatives;
- Engaging/collaborating with users and stakeholders;
- Working at all levels across the organization from end-users to executive management;
- Presenting to a wide range of audiences including executive management;
- Development of presentations, reports and relevant collateral as required.