IT Strategy Job Description

IT Strategy Job Description

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IT strategy provides feedback to develop team members to ensure quality and applicability of the deliverables and create value and impact for Amadeus.

IT Strategy Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Manages the development of Infrastructure and Service Management strategies in collaboration with Service Leads and IT Strategy & Transformation Leads
Leads and manages this program as a group of related projects, with each project being reliant on the others to achieve an overall larger objective or vision
Accountable for the delivery of the multi-year Infrastructure Services Strategy program which encompasses assessment of current and future demand for infrastructure services, assessment of current and future sources of infrastructure services supply, recommendation of a ten-year plan for infrastructure services capacity and source distribution (on-premise, Cloud, co-lo, hosted, ) and business cased development to support the recommendation
Accountable for managing all the integrated project planning and execution activities required to deliver the program scope in accordance with the agreed time, cost and quality criteria
Collaborates with the Head of Infrastructure & Service Management, IT Project Delivery, Head of PMO, internal / external IT partners, and with global senior function and IT business leaders who may be the Project Sponsors or hold other senior stakeholder roles
Working directly with the Senior Executive team to design, develop and assist in the implementation of IT strategies, ensuring alignment to corporate vision/goals
Assist Director of IT Strategy & Transformation in critical thinking, research, analysis, communication, and change management
Create clear and concise communications/recommendations for senior leadership review related to strategic business plans and initiatives
Participate and help drive a robust blend of IT governance approaches to realize IT results and enhance the relationship between our business units and IT group
Work with IT leadership to identify, refresh and execute strategic IT projects at the enterprise level

IT Strategy Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for IT Strategy

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, ITIL, TOGAF, PMI, CSM, ACP, COBIT, TBM, CSPO, SOX

Education for IT Strategy

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the IT strategy job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, MBA, Business, Engineering, Business/Administration, Education, Technology, Information Technology, Information Systems, Finance

Skills for IT Strategy

Desired skills for IT strategy include:

SAFe
Agile and Lean frameworks and tools
Common SDLCs
Kanban
Scrum
Specification by Example
Value Network Design
Value-Stream Mapping
Run PoCs and create ROI
Upcoming trends to work with our clients in order to develop the roadmap

Desired experience for IT strategy includes:

Certifications – University degree, MBA/advance degree a plus
At least 4 years experience in analysing and advising on IT Operating Models (incl
Highly motivated individual with a proven track record of delivering winning results
P&L Management experience strongly preferred
Account Management or Portfolio Management experience preferred
5+ years in technology strategy definition and business case development

IT Strategy Examples

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IT Strategy Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of IT strategy. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for IT strategy
  • Design and maintain a comprehensive and updated dashboard of all IT project resources across all active and planned IT projects
  • Develop and implement a program management view of high priority IT projects which require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and Business Analysts in business result summary (BRS) process, development and results tracking
  • Perform quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis
  • Provide strategic, organizational, operational, and leadership support to the office of the CIO and Senior Leadership Team in Pharmaceuticals IT
  • Broadly translate the multi-year Janssen and Enterprise IT strategy into annual goals and objectives with defined measures of success
  • Develop a comprehensive change management and communication strategy to effectively deliver key messages to the Pharm IT organization including content development, publication and strategy deployment
  • Design, develop and implement an integrated communications strategy to engage and educate Janssen business on the capabilities and value that IT has delivered and how new tools and technologies can further advance business goals and objectives
  • Facilitate key Pharm IT leadership team meetings including agenda preparation, meeting management and action planning/follow-ups
  • Provide support to the Office of the CIO including development of presentations for use with both internal and external audiences, develop and execute communication and events, including internal employee events, training events and other special projects in support of Pharm IT leadership
Qualifications for IT strategy
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Engineering (any) or a related field
  • Five years of experience providing IT consulting services to clients in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry on behalf of a global consulting company
  • Two years of experience providing IT consulting services to clients in the Consumer and Industrial Products industry
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering (any), CIS or a related field
  • Five years of experience providing IT consulting services to clients in the Financial Services industry on behalf of a global consulting company
  • Work with senior leadership on the change management strategy to ensure the successful transition to the new IT Operating Model
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IT Strategy Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an IT strategy. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for IT strategy
  • Develop and facilitate Communities of Practice (CoP) to leverage best practices, introduce new technologies or processes and improve the collaboration and development of key knowledge and skills within Pharma IT
  • Thinking creatively about increasing effectiveness of the data management product line, embedding agile practices into the organization
  • Closely partnering with Enterprise architects in continually scans technology landscape and keeping abreast of latest product offerings and potential impact to J&J
  • Forming and maintaining strong internal partnerships across all IT functions, ensuring strong alignment to our IT model
  • Delivery of product demonstrations and presentations to internal customers
  • Managing project plans, timescales and budgets
  • Working with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing
  • Incorporating Agile experience in navigating the SDLC
  • Crafting a product backlog that articulates all aspects of the user requirements and defining well-formed acceptance criteria
  • Facilitates the ITS leadership team to identify the most important CHI IT issues, and ways to maximize business value
Qualifications for IT strategy
  • Prior experience in Consumer Packaged Goods- preferred
  • Five years of experience providing IT consulting services to clients in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications industries
  • 8+ years’ experience working in Information Technology at a manufacturing company
  • Must be able to provide clear examples of successfully delivered major IT change initiatives
  • Ability to interface with internal stakeholders and external clients
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with at least three of following technical disciplines is required
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an IT strategy. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT strategy
  • Streamline the development, testing and release cycle of Interlink and Focus, two separate policy administration systems built upon a common application platform (UA)
  • Manage build, test and release environments
  • Add self-service capabilities
  • Improve software engineering practices of build teams
  • 10% - Support the Strategic IT planning process working across, the individual segments strategy teams and identifying additional opportunities for leverage and/or potential areas of conflict or incongruence
  • 20% - Drive the SCIT OGSM process and track and report the SCIT team’s performance against those goals
  • 20% - Provide project management support for major organizational transitions driven internally
  • 20% - Drive and measure the adoption of best practices processes across the SCIT organization by partnering with appropriate specialist groups (eg
  • 10% - Facilitate LT meetings driving the key topics and discussions required to successfully meet the team objectives
  • 10% - Provide project management support to the SCIT Credo action team and SC Diversity & inclusion initiatives
Qualifications for IT strategy
  • Managing enterprise-wide infrastructure tools
  • Must have good interpersonal, leadership, collaboration, facilitation and negotiation skills to develop relationships (internal and external) and manage any conflict
  • Competency with Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio
  • Deep knowledge of AWS big data eco system (S3, Redshift, EMR ) is required
  • 5 + years managing a technical development team of at least 5 people
  • 3+ years deploying large-scale software applications
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an IT strategy. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT strategy
  • Update and implement policy updates within the IT department
  • Provides financial analysis on OPEX and CAPEX for IT
  • Coordinate the preparation, review and submission of annual operating (both salary and non-salary) and capital budgets for all IT
  • Unlock strategic opportunities across the Technology’s network of partners
  • Coordinate development of strategies with other organizations in Technology function
  • Manage a team of Enterprise Architects and 3rd party vendors
  • Review business drivers and strategies, understand the implications to the application architecture, and identify/mitigate risks to solutions
  • Maintain a enterprise architecture framework, develop reference architecture, policies and standards
  • Keep up with technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the Group
  • Outstanding leadership capabilities, illustrating proficiency in both verbal and written communications
Qualifications for IT strategy
  • Experience with cloud based architecture and deployment strategies
  • Knowledge of the Universal Application (UA) platform build and deployment tools preferred
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Strategic Management, Engineering (any), Computer Information Systems or a related field
  • Five years of experience providing consulting services to clients in the Automotive and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industries on behalf of a global consulting company
  • Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred, in Computer Science, Business Administration, or other related field preferred
  • Ten (10) years experience with program and portfolio management, including five (5) years or more managing complex, large scale programs
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IT Strategy Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of IT strategy. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for IT strategy
  • A willingness to commit the additional time and effort necessary during periods of heavy workload in order to meet engagement milestones and deadlines
  • Experience writing and delivering business reports and high quality executive presentations
  • Very strong verbal and written communication skills (English)
  • The ability and confidence to persuade others and sell your ideas
  • Responsible for the overall roadmap creation and activation of leading practices, agile in particular, across a diverse application development team
  • Drive the adoption of agile delivery methods and mindsets during transformation, and helping to engage and empower employees to enhance the value of service provided to business partners and customers
  • Oversees the adoption of leading practices and tools and the creation and maintenance of practitioner communities
  • Coaches organization through Agile transformation, helping identify and attack organizational impediments which limit teams’ adoption
  • Works closely with Product Owners, transformation teams and business stakeholders to coach them on the Agile methodology
  • Ensures smooth transformation for each phase of adoption by providing hands on coaching for teams focused on understanding customer needs and iterative design of solutions
Qualifications for IT strategy
  • Knowledge of IT operational technology process standards working knowledge of IT architecture choices and IT Infrastructure Strategy including Hardware
  • Experience of implementing best practice standards ITIL, CoBIT
  • Understanding of analytics roles and responsibilities
  • Able to lead strategy development and effectively convert strategy into execution
  • 5+ years senior consulting experience from top management and IT consulting firm is strongly preferred
  • Experience in IT Strategy and Digital engagements

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