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The Storage Principal position must understand components of storage and how those components make up a storage asset.

They will support the department with their hands-on experience with assigning NAS and cloud storage, reporting on all aspects of storage (utilization, inventory, capacity, and unit and cost). Other responsibilities may include implementing different levels of RAID, connecting storage through switches, redundancy requirements, gathering and reporting on storage related metrics and other core aspects of managing a Storage Area Network for a medium to large enterprise.

They may also support with the following:

• Work in close partnership with major storage vendors like Dell/EMC, IBM, Hitachi, Netapp, and other major storage vendors.

• Maintain storage asset inventory and associated hardware and software maintenance.

• Provide thought leadership in Storage and emerging Storage technologies and work closely with customers to understand business needs and translate into a strategic roadmap.

• Work closely with engineering teams to translate business need to determine a technical solution.

• Speak to the different technologies with relation to pros and cons or risk versus reward and cost.

• Ensure all contributors to service component cost are accurate, speak to the contributors, and work with IT/finance team to adjust as necessary.

• Understand how to compare KP storage cost at the different technology types and compare them to industry standards.

• Utilize Product or Service Management experience to support the department.

• Manage a >$10M Storage budget and forecasting.

• Write executive summaries for ordering and integrating components to provide service.

• Identify & executes on performance and cost objectives.

Job Summary:

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for serving as the lead technical expert across project teams, setting technical direction across technical solutions, and overseeing all IT systems.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

• Leads a team of IT consultants in the development of requirements, for process or system solutions which may span multiple business domains by leveraging partnerships with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture).

• Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) across the enterprise.

• Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of highly unique or complex solution proposals.

• Leads the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by translating how current processes impact business operations across the enterprise.

• Leads teams of IT Consultants in the mapping of current state against future state processes.

• Defines the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.

• Provides insight and influence to executive management and business leaders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across the enterprise.

• Reviews, evaluates, and prioritizes value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.

• Leads solution design by translating requirements into workable business solutions and leading in design sessions with IT teams.

• Recommends and advocates for additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.

• Leads the evaluation of third-party vendors as directed.

• Drives continuous process improvement by leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across the enterprise.

• Recommends and advocates for regional and national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

  Additional Requirements:

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: IT Consultant Principal, Storage

LOCATION: Pleasanton, California

REQNUMBER: 1261951

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.