Our client in the Federal Government is seeking a
Senior Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategy & Solution Assessment Consultant
to support a strategic enterprise initiative focused on evaluating and selecting the optimal Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for a major SAP transformation program.
Working alongside a senior consulting team, you will lead the assessment of leading ALM solutions, develop strategic recommendations, and build the implementation roadmap for the selected platform. This is a true consulting engagement requiring strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise architecture expertise—not a traditional staff augmentation role.
Responsibilities
The successful consultant will be responsible for:
Lead an enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy assessment.
Facilitate stakeholder workshops and gather business and technical requirements.
Perform an options analysis comparing SAP Cloud ALM and other leading ALM platforms.
Assess solution capabilities against business, technical, governance, and operational requirements.
Develop recommendations for the target-state ALM platform.
Prepare executive-level presentations and decision documentation.
Develop implementation roadmap, delivery timeline, and cost estimates.
Design interim solution strategies where required.
Develop migration strategies from current-state to future-state ALM platform.
Provide strategic consulting and advisory services to senior stakeholders.
Collaborate with EY leadership and client governance throughout the engagement.
Required Experience
The ideal candidate will possess:
10+ years of consulting experience within enterprise IT transformation environments.
Experience qualifying as a
Level 3 TBIPS resource
in one or more of the following categories:
Enterprise Resource Planning Functional Analyst
Technical Architect
Business Consultant
Experience delivering at least
three SAP implementation projects.
Strong knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platforms.
Experience evaluating enterprise software solutions and developing technology recommendations.
Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience developing business cases, implementation strategies, and roadmaps.
Excellent workshop facilitation and requirements gathering experience.
Preferred Technical Experience
Hands-on or strategic experience with one or more of the following:
SAP Cloud ALM
SAP Solution Manager
Azure DevOps
Jira / Atlassian
ServiceNow
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)
Digital.ai
Preferred Methodologies
Experience with:
SAP Activate
SAP delivery methodologies
Agile delivery frameworks
Enterprise architecture
IT Governance
ITSM Knowledge
Strong understanding of:
Incident Management
Problem Management
Change Management
Release Management
Service Level Management
ITIL Framework
Nice to Have
Preference will be given to candidates with:
Canadian Federal Government consulting experience
Defence sector experience
Enhanced Reliability Clearance (active)
SAP transformation advisory experience
Enterprise architecture consulting experience
Strategy consulting within large enterprise organizations
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