Technology Strategy Senior Associate

About the role

As a Technology Strategy Senior Associate, you will be part of Grant Thornton’s AI, Data and Technology Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. You will perform strategic advisory services to address business challenges throughout client technology organizations.

Responsibilities

• Possess a working knowledge of how a commercial or large non-profit organization functions from an organizational, operating model, process, and technology perspective
• Continually strive to develop professionally, staying up to date on technology trends and solutions in the marketplace to address the issues companies and large non-profits face
• Aid practice leaders and business development executives with proposal development and presentations. Identify, quantify, and scope new opportunities for GT on existing engagements
• Perform strategic assessments of client technology environments against best practices and widely accepted maturity model frameworks
• Develop thoughtful, value-add recommendations and roadmaps that meet client needs
• Execute projects related to our technology strategy service offerings such as application portfolio strategy, enterprise IT strategy, technology architecture & cloud, technology operations design for mid to large sized public and private organizations
• Utilize first principles thinking, customizing create frameworks and methodologies to solve challenging problems
• Analyze complex quantitative / qualitative data and synthesize output
• Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, able to deliver difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity
• Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformations
• Build and analyze financial models and complex budgets
• Coach and develop team members
• Demonstrate executive presence to become a trusted advisor to c-suite level clients
• Contribute to the development of various service offerings and practice thought leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, or related field required
• MBA or MIS preferred
• Minimum 2+ years of related work experience in Strategy Consulting, servicing Technology related engagements preferred
• Industry experience within Manufacturing, Services, Healthcare (providers), Banking, Private Equity, or large Non-Profits (including higher education) a plus
• Excellent business writing and communication skills
• Experience in the assessment of IT organizations – capability to strategy alignment, cost structure, and operating model
• Experience in application portfolio strategy – package selection, implementation planning and application architecture model development
• Experience with strategic IT assessment, enterprise cloud assessments and roadmap development
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%
• Expected travel is up to 40%

Benefits

Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is between $110,400 and $140,670. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

Schedule

Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.