Product Delivery Lead

The opportunity

The Product Delivery Lead is responsible for the effectiveness, integration and optimization of the business and information layers. This role is a pivotal part of the transformation of global business processes and the supporting application and Information landscape. Work closely with global business executives and global portfolio managers to develop and maintain Ernst & Young’s business capability model, driving global capability integration, enhancement, and efficiency. Responsible for the development of integrated long-term Solution and Portfolio Roadmaps to ensure minimization of redundant solutions and proper support of the global IT strategy. Responsible for the development and maintenance of global Information architecture approaches, including logical data models, data governance structures, master data domains. Active role in the global Enterprise Architecture Leadership Team to work with other functions of the global Architecture Function to ensure appropriate support for end-to-end solutions.

Your key responsibilities

The Product Delivery Lead will need to have strong relationship skills to work close to the IT Delivery Team and key business stakeholders. With the goal of building teams to deliver key business requirements to address structural issues that hinder the achievement of the company goals. Applying business knowledge / understanding to management and meet the needs of stakeholders.

The role should possess good process instinct and apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise. Align the IT initiatives of the company with the business processes. The ability Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.

This role must be able to work remote across different time zone with the ability to travel both National and International.

Skills and attributes for success

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies, and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
• Strong relationship building skills and executive presence
• Excellent decision-making skills, leverages management for support in the absence of complete facts
• Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity and rapid change
• Good management skills, using judgment and tact.
• Strategic skills to propose long-term visions and the ability to translate them into actionable roadmaps that are broadly accepted.
• Ability to comprehend the changes to key business processes and the impact on the area of specialization.
• Ability to understand and integrate cultural differences and motives and to be an active participant in virtual cross-cultural, cross-border teams
• English language skills - excellent written and verbal communication
• An overall understanding of the business objectives of service lines and Core Business Services departments
• Ability to work and team with a multitude of different people - including business customers, IT project managers and IT engineers - to balance demands
• Self-starter attitude, working independently under limited guidance
• Good negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to moderate differing expectations

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What we look for

Candidates with a positive attitude that is eager to learn who is dependable with maturity and a professional attitude. A self-starter that can staff a team from various organizations across the globe and deliver quality products on time and within a budget : Displays strong leadership and team player that can work efficiently with others towards a common goal.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across ten locations – Argentina, China, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

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