BMO Financial Group is seeking to provide management consulting services and technology/industry expertise to solve business and enterprise needs, align technology solutions to business goals, and drive innovation by understanding customer problems and recommending effective solutions.
Requirements
- Knowledge of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e. waterfall, Agile, iterative), and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience.
- Knowledge of one or more requirements analysis and problem decomposition techniques.
- Knowledge of technical/business environment (e.g. Microsoft business technologies and applications, relational databases, and SharePoint).
- Understanding of industry standards and standard business capabilities.
- Knowledge of business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.
- Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.
- Understanding of techniques associated with data modeling, process modeling, and user-centered design within the context of the organizational standards.
Responsibilities
- Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need, meets essential quality standards, and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders.
- Promotes new processes and methodologies, emerging technologies, and agile, and aligns to the unique project team requirements.
- Drives innovation through observation of common customer problems to identify emerging customer needs and pain points, alternative or emerging solutions, and opportunities for rationalization among existing solutions.
- Establishes deep relationships at all levels within IT and business units to effectively collaborate in identifying new technological directions for the business strategy and to provide input into the roadmaps for these solutions.
- Defines business requirements for analytics and reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.
- Facilitates / leads requirements, storyboarding, epic descriptions, and other mechanisms to clearly articulate business goals and actions.
- Understands and follows a project requirements management plan so that activities and milestones of the project team can be measured against the goals of the plan.
Other
- Provides management consulting services and technology/industry expertise in support of business and enterprise needs.
- Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities, to facilitate the organization's goals by understanding business vision, objectives, and key performance indicators.
- Acts as a consultant to business partners in collaboration with the project team in strategy and planning sessions (e.g. multi-year and annual plans), reviews, or inspections to ensure the quality of work products.
- Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders for making business decisions and implementing strategic initiatives.
- Typically 9+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
