Investment Systems Solution Consultant - V

at  Vanguard

The GIFS Solutions Consulting Group is growing! We are internal consultants with IT knowledge, investment acumen, and deep analytical skills leveraging systems thinking and support our partners in Investment Management, Financial Management, Portfolio Review and Global Risk & Security.
The ideal candidate collaborates with the business to strategically advise how technology, education, and process innovation can help them to meet their business goals. With a high level of IT and business acumen, proactively identifies opportunities and demonstrates possibilities that technology can enable. Solution Consultants are key participants in business technology planning, gaining a holistic view of the technology portfolio to reveal cross-functional and/or cross departmental opportunities. Solutions Consultants are a trusted member of the IT community and are relied on by the business to achieve their goals with people, process, technology and data solutions. They use ideation and experimentation methods, and provide strategic guidance to internal clients with regard to people, technology and enabling or refining major business processes.

• Establish strategic relationships with key partners to identify, evaluate, and deliver solutions. Assist in formulating IT and business strategies, and ensure that business goals and strategy are well articulated. Play a vital role in evaluating which initiatives to pursue. Deliver value through cultivating relationships, developing strategy, shaping demand, and facilitating communication.
• Translate business problems into strategic and cost-effective technology solution alternatives. Leverage deep IT knowledge to research emerging technologies and apply to business problems. Create blueprint capabilities for investment systems software, middleware and hardware deliverables. Ensure all deliverables comply with IT policies and procedures.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to align business initiatives, priorities, and schedules based on strategic business and IT plans.
• Influence the enterprise by promoting the sharing of innovative business solutions across business units and divisions to achieve competitive advantage.
• Own and manage the capability landscape for one or more lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves. Develop deep knowledge of the business area(s) supported and the competitive landscape to provide context for decision-making.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Investment Management business functions. Combine technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to Investment Management business problems.