Senior IT Strategist
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THE ROLE
The Senior IT Strategist is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading complex IT strategy and governance engagements for healthcare organizations. Reporting to the Director, IT Strategy, the role partners with executive and operational stakeholders to develop actionable strategies, governance frameworks, operating models, and transformation roadmaps.
This hands-on consulting role leads strategic workstreams, facilitates executive decision-making, and delivers evidence-based recommendations that drive business and technology outcomes. The Senior IT Strategist also contributes thought leadership, methodologies, and reusable intellectual property across the practice.
The Senior IT Strategist directs and manages the project resources assigned to the engagements they lead including consultants, analysts, and project team members with authority over task assignment, work prioritization, and performance oversight for the duration of those engagements.
FUNCTIONAL AND OPERATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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Serve as a subject matter expert, providing strategic guidance on complex client challenges, industry trends, and service-line opportunities.
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Contribute to the development and enhancement of methodologies, frameworks, tools, templates, and reusable intellectual property.
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Partner with practice leadership to identify capability gaps, delivery improvements, market opportunities, and emerging client needs.
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Support engagement success through quality assurance, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and leadership of assigned project resources.
ENGAGEMENT TYPES YOU WILL LEAD
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Lead complex IT strategy engagements including strategic planning, business case development, options analysis, and roadmap creation.
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Advise clients on governance, operating models, organizational effectiveness, sourcing strategies, financial management, performance measurement, and stakeholder engagement.
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Deliver decision-ready solutions that drive operational excellence, value realization, and measurable business outcomes through assessments, KPI development, and transformation initiatives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy Engagement Leadership
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•Frame the strategic questions, decisions, analytical approach, and evidence requirements for assigned engagements and workstreams.
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•Lead client relationships for assigned work, building credibility with managers, directors, and senior leaders across IT, clinical, compliance, security, finance, and operations.
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•Plan and lead structured discovery through interviews, workshops, artifact review, data requests, benchmarking, and evidence synthesis.
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•Facilitate working sessions and decision forums that clarify tradeoffs, build alignment, and move stakeholders toward well-supported decisions.
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•Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into defensible findings, strategic options, recommendations, and practical transition actions.
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•Maintain disciplined execution across scope, timeline, budget, risks, dependencies, and engagement economics; surface material issues early with practical mitigation options.
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•Manage the project resources assigned to engagements they lead, including staffing the workplan, assigning and prioritizing tasks, balancing workloads, directing day-to-day work, and providing performance oversight and input for the duration of the engagement.
Decision Artifacts and Deliverables
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•Create executive-ready strategy decks, narrative storylines, and decision memos with explicit options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and implications.
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•Design governance operating models, including charters, decision forums, RACI matrices, escalation paths, and annual governance calendars.
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•Develop KPI and KRI scorecards and reporting-pack templates with clear definitions, owners, thresholds, and cadence.
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•Build multi-year roadmaps with dependencies, sequencing rationale, decision gates, and transition plans.