IT Manager - Utilities

Centric Consulting; Boston (MA); À distance; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote and Hybrid Work

Time Off When You Need It

Benefits That Flex

Professional Development

Résumé du poste

Centric Consulting is seeking an IT Manager to lead a portfolio of Customer Information Systems and Meter-to-Cash applications. Remote role with cross-functional collaboration across business and technology teams, MSPs, and partners to ensure stability, performance, and compliance.

You will drive enhancements, manage budgets, and oversee offshore support, while balancing day-to-day operations with strategic initiatives. A strong ITIL background and utility CIS experience are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Senior technology leader with enterprise app experience.
• Experience with utility CIS platforms (SAP IS-U, Oracle CC&B) preferred.
• Budgeting, vendor spend, and regulatory compliance experience.

Responsabilités

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for CIS and Meter-to-Cash apps.
• Oversee support teams, MSPs, and partners to ensure service quality.
• Ensure continuity, security, and regulatory compliance of applications.
• Drive continuous improvement across performance, processes, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize needs and deliver enhancements.
• Establish robust incident management, monitoring, and problem resolution.
• Balance daily operations with long-term platform upgrades.

Connaissances

IT Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Agile Delivery

ITIL Service Management

Vendor Management

Regulatory & Compliance

Formation

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Master's preferred

Outils

CIS platform experience (e.g., SAP IS-U, Oracle CC&B)

Meter-to-Cash systems

CRM/Billing platforms

Description du poste

IT Manager - Utilities

Job Level: W2T Consultant

Job Location: Remote

Travel Expectations: None

Job Classification: Temporary (W2T)

Join Centric Consulting - A Culture You'll Love

At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry - celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships.

We are looking for an IT Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across a complex portfolio of customer-facing and billing applications. In the role, you will collaborate with business and technology teams, managed service providers, and technology partners to ensure application stability, performance, compliance, and business continuity while driving meaningful enhancements and long-term improvements.

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership and oversight for a portfolio of Customer Information Systems (CIS) and Meter-to-Cash applications, ensuring their stability, performance, availability, and ongoing support.
• Lead application support teams, managed service providers, and technology partners to drive operational excellence and effective service delivery.
• Ensure business continuity and application reliability while proactively identifying and addressing operational risks and performance issues.
• Oversee application maintenance, enhancements, upgrades, and continuous improvement initiatives across the CIS and Meter-to-Cash portfolio.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to prioritize needs, resolve issues, and successfully deliver strategic technology enhancements.
• Establish and maintain strong application support practices, including performance monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and service improvement.
• Help ensure applications and support processes meet applicable regulatory, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve application performance, support processes, service quality, and overall efficiency.
• Build strong relationships across internal teams, service providers, and technology partners to ensure alignment and accountability.

Who You Are:

• An experienced technology leader with a strong background supporting and managing complex, business-critical enterprise application environments.
• Utility industy experience supporting CIS, Customer BIlling, Customer Care, Collections, Payments, Supplier Services, or Meter-to-Cash processes.
• Experience with Customer/1, CSS, CRIS, SAP IS-U, Oracle CC&B, Kraken, or similar utility CIS platforms, preferred.
• Experienced with Agile delivery models (Kanban, Scrum, etc).
• Knowledge of ITIL Service Management practices.
• Skilled at leading and managing application maintenance and support teams, managed service providers and offshore support teams.
• Experience supporting regulatory, compliance, and audit activities.
• Experience managing operational budgets, forecasts, and vendor spend.
• Comfortable balancing day-to-day operational priorities with longer-term application enhancements and strategic initiatives.
• Strong collaborator who can build effective relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and leadership.
• Proactive problem solver who can identify risks, drive issues to resolution, and continuously look for ways to improve systems and processes.
• Clear communicator with the ability to translate between business needs and technology priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or in related field; Master's Degree preferred
• PMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or Agile certification, preferred.

Total Rewards:

We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.

• Remote and Hybrid Work
• Time Off When You Need It
• Benefits That Flex
• Professional Development

While benefits eligibility may vary for roles that are not full-time, we provide unique opportunities for growth, skill development, and more. Regardless of your role, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where every team member contributes to our shared success.

Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits. .

Who We Are:

Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.

Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.

What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?

We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part inpromoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bringour mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highestqualityservices to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the application or interview process.

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