About This Role
This IT Consultant role involves a long-term assignment for a client, focusing on assessing and improving IT operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data management practices. The consultant will provide strategic recommendations and leadership to enhance the client's technology landscape.
Responsibilities
- Assess current IT operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data-management practices, applications, processes, and key technology risks
- Provide strategic focus on recommendations highlighted in the recent capabilities risk assessment
- Lead cybersecurity improvements across identity and access management, endpoint security, network security, data protection, backup/recovery, and related controls
- Strengthen data management, access controls, ownership, retention, protection, and governance practices
- Improve the organization's software portfolio by setting and enforcing clear standards around how applications are selected, managed, and retired
- Standardize SOP's across the organization to ensure accuracy and relevancy
- Develop and maintain a prioritized and strategic IT roadmap for the next 1-3 years
- Improve IT standard operating procedures, documentation, asset management, monitoring, support practices, and technology lifecycle management
- Evaluate business continuity and disaster recovery readiness and recommend improvements
- Provide oversight of technology vendors, service providers, consultants, and internal resources
- Establish project ownership, milestones, timelines, risks, accountability and reporting
- Deliver technology guidance and recommendations to executive leadership
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and knowledge transfer to internal IT resources
Requirements
- Familiarity with Tessitura, our CRM
Important Details
- Contract: 6 months with possible extension
Application Process
Key Deliverables
- Prioritized IT strategy and technology roadmap
- Cybersecurity remediation and improvement plan
- Data management and governance recommendations
- IT operational improvement plan
- Updated IT policies, procedures, standards, and documentation
- Business continuity and disaster recovery recommendations
- Infrastructure, cloud, and application improvement recommendations
- Vendor and service-provider assessment and oversight
- Implementation plans and progress tracking for priority initiatives
- Documentation and knowledge transfer to internal staff
