IT Solutions Planning, Senior Advisor

Southern California Edison; Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 140.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Southern California Edison seeks an IT Solutions Planning, Senior Advisor to lead strategic technology planning, portfolio management, and investment prioritization aligning business goals with enterprise outcomes.

You will work with business leaders, architects, and delivery teams to build roadmaps, evaluate demand, and guide high-value technology investments to drive a cleaner energy future.

Qualifikationen

• Ten or more years of experience developing and implementing technology solution plans aligned to business strategy.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business.
• Experience partnering with solution architecture, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies in product, portfolio, and strategic planning.
• Experience building technology roadmaps, business cases, and multi-year investment plans.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and make data-driven investment recommendations.
• Proven collaboration and influence across senior stakeholders and executives.
• Success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment.
• Experience creating dashboards, metrics, and executive-level presentations.

Aufgaben

• Guides long-range planning for business capabilities and outcomes.
• Leads portfolio planning, demand management, and technology investments.
• Solicits requirements from stakeholders for planning initiatives.
• Analyzes processes and develops business cases for new initiatives.
• Optimizes IT demand and identifies value-stream opportunities.
• Maintains strategic view of business and technology outcomes and total cost of ownership.
• Approves project documentation and delivers planning artifacts.
• Advises on asset lifecycle from inception to retirement.
• Collaborates with IT, product owners, cybersecurity, operations, and leadership.
• Travelling up to 10% to various sites as needed.

Kenntnisse

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Influencing skills

Agile, Scrum

Portfolio management

Business case development

Cross-functional leadership

Technology investment

Executive presentation

Data-driven decisions

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree (IT/CS/Engineering/Business)

Jobbeschreibung

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an IT Solutions Planning, Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll lead strategic technology planning, portfolio management, and investment prioritization efforts that align business objectives with enterprise technology outcomes.

Working closely with business leaders, product owners, architects, and delivery teams, you will develop technology roadmaps, evaluate and prioritize demand, build business cases, and guide high-value technology investments. You will help drive business transformation by balancing strategic priorities, emerging needs, risk, and value across a diverse portfolio of initiatives.

Success in this role requires strong strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate complex environments, build consensus, and translate business vision into actionable technology plans.

As an IT Solutions Planning, Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Guides business capability long-range planning, identification of business outcomes and objectives, requirements solicitation, business case development, process analysis, solution planning.

• Leads activities for development, implementation, and coordination of a portfolio of technology planning activities to include new demand, delivery, and support.

• Solicits requirements from stakeholders for technology planning initiatives, sourcing and ensuring completion of high-value technology investments.

• Analyzes processes and plans solutions to address business needs; develops business cases for new initiatives and technology investments.

• Optimizes IT demand by recommending opportunities for Value Stream bundling, identifying conflicts, and recommends escalation for resolution where appropriate.

• Maintains the strategic view of the business, technology outcomes, continuously clarifies how the technology initiative delivers on those outcomes, how they will be supported, and what are considerations for total cost of ownership.

• Provides input to and/or approve project documentation including project charter, business requirements document, test plans, and other delivery/execution deliverables.

• Analyzes and makes recommendations on plans of action for potential new demand from various sources (e.g.: Tech Consults, Business Partner Integration teams, etc.).

• Provides input and guidance to IT and OU product owners regarding asset lifecycle including from inception to retirement.

• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in developing and implementing technology solution processes and plans to further the overall business strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

• Eight or more years of experience partnering with solution architecture, business stakeholders, and technology teams to define, prioritize, and deliver enterprise technology solutions.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies, including experience supporting product, portfolio, and strategic planning activities.

• Experience developing and maintaining product & technology strategies, capability roadmaps, operating models within a large enterprise environment, and multi-year technology investment plans aligned to business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, evaluate changing business demands, and make data-driven recommendations to optimize investment decisions and technology outcomes.

• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence multiple stakeholders across business, product, architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and executive leadership teams.

• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed environment and achieving outcomes through collaboration, influence, and stakeholder engagement.

• Experience developing business cases, process documentation, dashboards, metrics, value realization measures, and executive-level presentations to support planning and prioritization decisions.

• Knowledge of portfolio management, demand management, value stream planning, product management, and technology lifecycle management.

• Experience evaluating technology investments, business value, risk, and total cost of ownership to support strategic planning and prioritization activities.

• Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to translate complex technology concepts into clear business outcomes for executive leadership.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

• Visit our Candidate Resource (https://www.edisoncareers.com/page/show/candidate-resources) page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA.

• Position may require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [e-mail] or [phone] and select option 2.