IFS Cloud Business Architect
Position Summary
Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.
AI & Engineering leverages cutting-edge engineering capabilities to build, deploy, and operate integrated/verticalized sector solutions in software, data, AI, network, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. These solutions are powered by engineering for business advantage, transforming mission-critical operations. We enable clients to stay ahead with the latest advancements by transforming engineering teams and modernizing technology & data platforms. Our delivery models are tailored to meet each client's unique requirements.
Work you'll do
As a Manager, Strategy, Growth and Transformation on the Power & Utilities Solutions team, you will be responsible for...
- Leading functional strategy, requirements definition, and solution design for IFS Cloud Enterprise Asset Management and Work Management capabilities for utility clients
- Guiding business and technical teams in defining user outcomes, shaping backlogs, and producing Functional Design Documents covering data, integrations, controls, and user experience
- Leading client workshops to document business processes, pain points, desired outcomes, assumptions, dependencies, and non-functional requirements across asset, work, inspection, measurement, location, and materials processes
- Overseeing the translation of requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tools, with traceability to process steps and support for build and test execution
- Driving design decisions, stakeholder alignment, and delivery coordination across build, testing, change management, and client presentations, while mentoring junior team members and leading workstreams
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
The team
Our Industry Solutions offering provides verticalized solutions that transform how clients sell products, deliver services, generate growth, and execute mission-critical operations. We deliver integrated business expertise with scalable, repeatable technology solutions specifically engineered for each sector.
Deloitte's Power, Utilities & Renewables practice is at the forefront of top trends and issues facing the ever-evolving power, utilities and renewable energy landscape. Building on more than 175 years of service, our US Power, Utilities & Renewables practice helps clients with some of their most complex challenges as they look to accelerate digital transformation, ignite technological innovation, and navigate more sustainable solutions for energy generation.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience working with utility clients or within the utilities sector, including 5+ years in asset management, asset performance management, or work management in the gas and electric utility industry
- Experience implementing Enterprise Asset Management solutions such as IFS, including IFS Cloud
- 3+ years of experience leading technical product design for enterprise platforms, including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional design documentation, and using Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel
- 2+ years of experience specifying integration requirements using application programming interfaces (APIs), events, or batch, including field mapping, system-of-record alignment, latency expectations, and error handling
- Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
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Preferred:
- Advanced degree
- 2+ years of experience with IFS Cloud
- IFS certifications
- Experience using Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar backlog management tools
- Experience leading consulting delivery for utility clients
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Requisition code: 355587
Job ID 355587
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