Senior IT Portfolio Analyst

at  Sidley Austin LLP

Summary:
The Senior IT Portfolio Analyst performs analysis activities that support the decision making regarding matching technology solutions (package selection, configuration, development) with business, user, and functional needs from stakeholders. This involves conducting market research, functional comparisons, and staying abreast of what is being done at other law firms and professional services firms.
The Senior IT Portfolio Analyst partners with the appropriate business stakeholders and the Senior IT Portfolio Manager to prioritize work in the Knowledge Management and Emerging Technology space (e.g. Artificial Intelligence). With the business and IT teams, they maintain a set of institutional knowledge of what is working well within the program and what needs improvement.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs, creating a roadmap of projects for their assigned area.
• Seek input of user experience and business analysts to determine potential improvements to their assigned products.
• Preparation and analysis of business user needs into the necessary documentation (requirements, use cases, traceability matrix, design documentation, test scripts)
• Monitor and perform work related to incoming requests from business stakeholders for changes, updates, and other technical issues to the marketing applications, Sidley intranet site, external websites, blogs and other digital properties.
• Stay abreast of best practices being done at other firms, and technology developments that may impact the area. Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and the Senior Portfolio Manager to influence the technology decisions for the area based on this knowledge.
• Analyze and consolidate all perspectives on the project – business needs, user experience, security, training, risk, time, cost, technology architecture, procurement/vendor management, operational considerations, etc. – to help the Firm reach the best technology decisions.
• Drives project and business teams toward achieving intended business results within a specified time and budget.
• Manages the lifecycle of their assigned products and applications, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement / upgrade.
• Performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path
• Review and reporting of program/project
• Preparation of materials for briefings and presentations to large size groups of key decision makers at the executive level.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the Duties and Responsibilities (Duties) above satisfactorily and meet the requirements below. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. If you need such an accommodation, please email staffrecruiting@sidley.com (current employees should contact Human Resources).
Education and/or Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Portfolio Analyst, Project Coordinator or related role
• Good understanding of SaaS and web technologies

Preferred:

• Project Management experience
• Experience with documenting functional requirements and use cases/user stories
• Experience with key Core IT applications, including the Office 365 suite, Microsoft Teams, document management systems such as NetDocuments, as well as mobile platforms like Intune, Workspace One and/or Blackberry Work
• Ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams including, but not limited to developers, technical architects, non-technical business units and vendors.
• Law firm experience

Other Skills and Abilities:

The following will also be required of the successful candidate:

• Strong organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Good judgment
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work harmoniously and effectively with others
• Able to preserve confidentiality and exercise discretion
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities

Sidley Austin LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employe

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs, creating a roadmap of projects for their assigned area.
• Seek input of user experience and business analysts to determine potential improvements to their assigned products.
• Preparation and analysis of business user needs into the necessary documentation (requirements, use cases, traceability matrix, design documentation, test scripts)
• Monitor and perform work related to incoming requests from business stakeholders for changes, updates, and other technical issues to the marketing applications, Sidley intranet site, external websites, blogs and other digital properties.
• Stay abreast of best practices being done at other firms, and technology developments that may impact the area. Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and the Senior Portfolio Manager to influence the technology decisions for the area based on this knowledge.
• Analyze and consolidate all perspectives on the project – business needs, user experience, security, training, risk, time, cost, technology architecture, procurement/vendor management, operational considerations, etc. – to help the Firm reach the best technology decisions.
• Drives project and business teams toward achieving intended business results within a specified time and budget.
• Manages the lifecycle of their assigned products and applications, from inception to implementation, throughout production until retirement / upgrade.
• Performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path
• Review and reporting of program/project
• Preparation of materials for briefings and presentations to large size groups of key decision makers at the executive level.
• Other duties as assigne