Sr. IT Business Planning Manager

Client: FL State Government Agency

Position: Sr IT Business Planning Manager

Term: ASAP - June 2026 with renewal

Contract Pay: $70/Hr

Work Authorization: USC or GC Holderno other forms of Visa are accepted

Location: Tallahassee, FL - 100% on site

Face to Face Interviews: Interviews must be in person and telecommuting is not allowed for this position.

Scope:

This candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the planned technology environment is aligned with the technology strategic direction. They will actively meet with the leadership team to understand the goals and objectives that drive the business strategy for each area. They will need to understand how current and proposed technology supports and facilitates accomplishment of those goals and objectives. They will then review the impact of technology proposals against the current technology environment and assess potential risks to current business goals and objectives. The candidate must be able to coordinate efforts on multiple large and/or cross-functional projects of high complexity that will have a greater impact to the enterprise. The candidate must provide strategic consulting level support, guidance, and research for key IT initiatives, programs, and projects.

Education: US based Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or financial related field and five years’ professional work experience.

Certification: Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years’ IT and business work experience with a broad range of exposure to various technical environments and business segments.
• Experience managing teams responsible in strategic planning, infrastructure and/or operational support functions.
• Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of resource and demand management, business intelligence, and data management tools and techniques.
• During the interview process will be expected to describe multiple past experiences with business process tools and how they were deployed for a successful outcome.
• Must also be in a professional environment in public sector technology organizations.
• Priority given to candidates with logistics or transportation industry experience
• Priority given to candidates with experience in completing QA reviews, data conversion techniques, data cleansing approaches and validating data relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Gather and document the goals and objectives related to the IT business strategy and help document them as requirements.
• Support project managers and business analysts performing gap analysis between Department owned technology and future required solutions to meet growing business needs.  
• Plan and prioritize integration of new and existing technology according to business needs and strategic direction.
• Identify technological areas for improvement, identify and analyze gaps between the current state and the desired state, develop process performance measures and plan the transition to a new state.
• Serve as strategic interface with business office staff for the purpose of business/IT strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management and relationship management.
• Use subject matter expertise, industry methodologies and best practices, and automated tools to analyze and make recommendations on behalf of the Department for required changes to complex business processes to align with proposed solutions.
• Assist in business process redesign and documentation.
• Work with functional and enterprise system support staff during technical assessments of the Department’s systems and interfaces within internal and external systems.
• Document business cases, feasibility studies, proofs of concepts, and product evaluations.
• Facilitate work sessions – strategic planning, program planning, technology proposal process, etc.
• Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize detailed data into executive level formats as well as breaking down aggregate information into meaningful pieces.