Consultant I-Senior Lead of Business Analyst

Consultant I-Senior Lead of Business Analyst

Start/End Dates: 6/21/2021 – 11/30/2021
Tax Work Location: GBR-London-Schroders-WallPlace
Job Title: IT|Consulting – Consultant I

Job Description: Senior Lead of Business Analyst

Start date: 21 June 2021
End date: 30 November 2021
Role: Onsite (2-3 times visiting the office monthly) but can work from HO
Position: 1

Profile of the candidate:
– Minimum 10-12 years of experience
– Confident user knowledge of PEGA BA (Case Management tool knowledge and Asset Management experience)
– Product life cycle experience
– Very good communicator to work closely with the business and the development team.

Expectations from this role:

1. Work with stakeholders at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives; support business unit managers as they leverage business architecture and product development artifacts to create and implement client business plans.
2. Provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various scenarios, and delivery of bottom line value for the business.
3. Help client business and leadership team with problem definition.
4. Collaborate and contribute to business and technology consulting projects to deliver client objectives.
5. Perform assessments of client business processes, organizational change, IT processes, and technology landscape; identify transformational recommendations.
6. Develop a business and technical architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
7. Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
8. Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
9. Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution, and business management functions.
10. Define the set of strategic, core, and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources, and controls are involved in the processes.
11. Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between the data.
12. Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities, and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Typical performance measures:

1. Transformational value delivered to customer
2. Utilization in billable roles
3. Customer feedback
4. Number of certifications obtained
5. Number of reusable components designed for CoEs

Performance Areas:

1. Design and Implementation Support:
   1. Understand the business requirements from the analyst and create a mapping document, if required (specific to integration).
   2. Evaluate technical requirements (e.g. number of interfaces required, maps required for each interface, etc.); understand the design concepts to be used.
   3. Study the best practices for design and jointly design the solution; review the design for potential flaws; verify the design with CoE.
2. Practice Development:
   1. Provide feedback on current gaps with internal processes that can be improved.
3. Knowledge Management:
   1. Identify best practices, tools, and solution accelerators for products in the solution area; bring in the existing solution accelerators, reusable assets, etc.
   2. Review the solutions and identify opportunities to create reusable assets, solution accelerators, etc.
   3. Stay up to date with new developments in the product/technology solution area under purview.
   4. Analyze the best-in-class solutions and design aspects, track industry trends and draw insights.
4. Solution Development:
   1. Build understanding of new solutions and develop delivery capability.
   2. Assist in the creation of new solutions by providing inputs and insights.
5. Product Selection:
   1. Collaborate with the product selection group to identify the best suited product to meet the project requirements; provide inputs on product features, as required.
6. Technology Consulting Advisory:
   1. Engage with client stakeholders during advisory engagements.
   2. Gather information relevant to the client\’s context and conduct detailed analysis using technology solution frameworks.
   3. Seek guidance from Lead Consultant as required.
   4. Arrive at draft recommendations based on analysis.
   5. Provide thought leadership on implementation of specific technology.
   6. Engage with client stakeholders.
7. Alliance Management:
   1. Engage with the technology specialists of the product vendor to identify ways to leverage the product.

Skill Examples:

1. Uses Domain/Industry knowledge to contextualize the solution to the industry, assess the domain-specific risks to the solution, review the business requirements captured and assess the gap.
2. Uses COTS Product Features/Functionality knowledge to understand the technical/functional dependencies of the product workflow/custom component.
3. Uses Competitive Products Landscape knowledge to relate how the same business events are handled in different products.
4. Uses Different Implementations knowledge to relate own area of work to the big picture of the project.
5. Uses Technology Concepts knowledge to identify technical risk and define mitigation strategies.
6. Uses specialized knowledge of process consulting to drive changes in customer organization.
7. Uses Project Management Tools and Techniques knowledge to plan and manage simple, small or medium size projects/modules as defined within Client.
8. Uses Project Governance Framework knowledge to create/customize RACI matrix and governance framework for small or medium size projects.
9. Uses Project Metrics knowledge to understand relevance in project, collect/collate project metrics and share it with relevant stakeholders.
10. Uses Estimation and Resource Planning knowledge to create estimate and plan resources for specific modules/small projects.
11. Uses Requirement Gathering and Analysis knowledge to raise ambiguities on requirements shared.
12. Uses Solution Structuring knowledge to create customized solution to the problem.
13. Uses Knowledge Management Tools & Techniques knowledge to leverage existing material and re-usable assets.
14. Uses Technical Standards, Documentation & Templates knowledge to create documentation appropriate for the project needs.
15. Uses Pricing & Licensing Models knowledge to conduct pricing exercise for complex projects.

Knowledge Examples:

1. Domain/Industry: Specialized knowledge of one or more sub-domains within the relevant industry vertical.
2. COTS Product Features/Functionality: Working knowledge of functionality of a specific product.
3. Competitive Products Landscape: Working knowledge of COTS product and cross-trained in another similar COTS product.
4. Different Implementations: Demonstrates working knowledge of 2 or more different kinds of implementations.
5. Technology Concepts: Demonstrates specialized knowledge of technology concepts.
6. Process Consulting: Specialized knowledge of process consulting/harmonization concepts.
7. Project Management Tools and Techniques: Demonstrates working knowledge of project management processes.
8. Project Governance Framework: Demonstrates working knowledge of project governance framework.
9. Project Metrics: Demonstrates basic knowledge of project metrics.
10. Estimation and Resource Planning: Working knowledge of estimation and resource planning techniques.
11. Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Demonstrates working knowledge of requirements.
12. Solution Structuring: Demonstrates working knowledge of Client service offerings and domain-related COTS products.
13. Knowledge Management Tools & Techniques: Demonstrates working knowledge of industry knowledge management tools.
14. Technical Standards, Documentation & Templates: Demonstrates working knowledge of various document templates and standards.
15. Pricing & Licensing Models: Working knowledge of pricing models and licensing models.

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