**Posting timeline: The posting has been extended until June 3, 2022. No changes have been made to the initial posting advertisement. If you have previously submitted an application to this Job ID, there is no need to apply again.**Are you passionate about technology? Are you interested in helping the Ontario Public Service adopt modern IT solutions and platforms?
As a member of our Business Development and Consulting Team, you will work with senior OPS executive leaders to understand their business landscape and unique challenges, and offer them modern IT solutions that will support them today – and in the future.
As the bridge between the business and IT communities, you will use your strong communications, relationship management, and negotiation skills to ensure IT solutions solve business problems.
If this sounds exciting to you, don't miss this great opportunity to accelerate your career with the Business Development and Consulting team today!
Note: This position is located at 33 King Street West Oshawa or 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto; however, alternate work arrangements including flexible hours, hybrid remote work, and compressed work week may be available.
About the job
In this role you will:
• Identify business requirements for your assigned client portfolio, as well as identify and select optimal IT business solutions to support their program delivery.
• Provide technical oversight to the development and implementation of I&IT solutions, ensuring that solutions delivered meet business needs.
• Provide ongoing support and technical advice to an assigned client portfolio, ensuring optimum I&IT investment.
What you bring to the team
Communication Skills:
• You have presentation skills to prepare and present information, options and recommendations to a variety of different audiences.
• You have consultation skills to engage partners, provide advice, assemble solutions that meet all requirements, and address the concerns of all stakeholders.
• You have facilitation skills to lead meetings and committees and to work with large multi-disciplinary groups in order to elicit information and build consensus.
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills:
• You can conduct needs assessments and understand multiple, complex and potentially conflicting business requirements.
• You can identify, itemize and articulate viable options for solving identified problems.
• You have the ability to identify risk and formulate specific recommendations based on a clearly reasoned rationale.
Essential Skills:
• You have skills in business analysis, application development, solution support and IT customer service delivery.
• You have service delivery management, operational planning and resource management skills, in an IT environment, to provide solutions to client I&IT requirements.
• You have contract management skills to advise client business areas on contract negotiation and vendor management.
• You have prioritization skills to organize information appropriately.
Technical Knowledge:
• You have knowledge of Service Management, Incident Management and Problem Management processes in order to monitor service level agreements and make recommendations to clients for achievement of improved service levels.
• You have knowledge of system design methods and enterprise architecture methods to interpret and leverage existing business and system documentation and direct development of new documentation.
• You have knowledge of existing technology and IT industry trends, developments and emerging technologies to identify and recommend current and innovative options.
• You have knowledge of software packages or services (such as General Ledger, Human Resources, Enterprise Resource Planning, Case Management, and Service Management packages).
Finance and Project Management Knowledge and Skills:
• You have knowledge of I&IT project management structures, in order to lead the definition of requirements, options analysis planning and options approval stages of projects.
• You have knowledge of financial modeling tools and methods for quantifying and projecting project costs and budgets.
OPS Commitment to diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti- racism:We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.
We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
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