Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Infrastructure Relationship Manager Berkeley CA


Infrastructure Relationship Manager
 
 
Job ID: Job-2569
location:       Berkeley, CA
Jobtype:        Permanent
Rate:   $190K - $200K +bonus
 
Description:   
Ideal role for a former infrastructure architect who has worked in consulting and is now in industry, maybe as a project or program manager, director or delivery manager to act as a liaison on all matters infrastructure for applications and the business group (it is a group of quantitative analysts).
 
QUALIFICATIONS:
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems.  MBA a plus.
10+ years of progressive IT experience desired and/ or consulting experience including  technology program management in medium to large size organizations.
Work in matrix corporate environment. Background working with global virtual teams highly desired. Strong consultative/client facing skills required. Proven competency in motivating and effectively leading matrix teams/resources.
Strong understanding in IT infrastructure architecture. Certification in ITIL, Six-Sigma and PMP a plus.
Attention to detail, but also ability to see the bigger picture and achieve the proper balance between 100% accuracy and timeliness (the 80/20 rule).
Experience in exposure to senior management staff (BU Heads, Practice Leads, CxO).
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding global environment, supporting colleagues located around the world
Speaks and writes clearly and effectively even when relating complex information.
Financial Management: understands and has prepared quantitative business cases (ROI cost & benefits) supporting IT initiatives including what-if scenarios, probabilistic confidence levels, and risk analysis. Experience preparing and presenting quantitative business cases (i.e. cost and benefits analysis) supporting IT initiatives a plus.
 
• Financial industry experience (eg. investment banking, pension fund, hedge fund, asset management) preferred, not required
 
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Gather requirements on the IT product line through interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
Support the Business Operations by providing a touch point for IT.
Partner with business leaders including Business Unit Heads and their teams understand strategic and tactical business objectives.
Work with IT Leadership team to create and implement business strategies that leverage and integrate IT strategy of architecture, infrastructure, and application development of existing and new technology to achieve business objectives.
Intake and execution
Work with the Business to define current and desired future state operating models and business capability roadmaps. To define business value associated with desired IT projects - define quantifiable and qualitative measurements of success.
Work with Business to document the priorities for Business projects and initiatives.
Work with IT and Business partners to define requirements required to achieve business objectives.
Support new commercial activities that leverage IT services to our customers.
Represent business needs in the identification and prioritization of IT performance improvement opportunities.
Analyze and evaluate of information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Collaborate with different peers in business units (product lines and application development) to establish technical and functional views on the IT platform and analyze the tradeoff between usability and performance.
 
Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume.
 
NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE
 
PAID RELOCATION AVAILABLE. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.
 
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