Business Systems Lead

Business Systems Lead

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is looking for a Business Systems Lead to join our Information Technology (IT) team in Scottsdale, AZ. The IT team is a vital component in KES’s strategy to improve business performance through the application of technology and profitably transform our business. Working as an integrated group with the Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Operations, Commercial and Financial technology product teams, we support businesses that design, build and maintain facilities for various industries across the world.

As a member of the Information Technology team, you will need to thrive in a fast paced and innovative environment. You will collaborate with business stakeholders and IT capabilities to define problems, identify requirements, develop solutions and prove their value through experimentation and scalable deployment in our business. Leading in a collaborative environment, displaying creativity, applying critical and economic thinking, and focusing on attaining positive business results will be necessary skills.

You will need to be resourceful and capable of partnering with key stakeholders to effectively prioritize, build relationships, and interact with market solution providers to identify viable products that can accelerate progress of our business objectives.

• Proactively build relationships with DEPCOM stakeholders with the goal of seeking to understand and anticipate business IT needs in line with the business goals and vision.
• Conduct process mapping, gap analysis and impact assessments to identify opportunities for improvement or innovation.
• Work cross functionally within DEPCOM to seek alternative viewpoints on identified issues in the business such as process gaps, and technology pain points.
• Effectively gather and document detailed business requirements to determine the scope of effort to solution, and develop functional specifications.
• Creatively problem solve by interpreting data, analyzing findings and performing internal and external research to draw conclusions on innovative solutions for identified business problems.
• Collaborate across IT teams (application development, infrastructure, and support) and with DEPCOM stakeholders to determine the best solutions by researching alternatives, performing functional analysis, coordinating demos, driving experiments, and implementing business transformation projects.
• Ensure IT systems and applications comply with internal policies, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive decision making when analyzing alternative solutions for business problems and the potential barriers, risks, or consequences they could impose on the business and the enterprise architecture associated.
• Serve as the primary liaison between DEPCOM stakeholders, IT teams, vendors and Leadership on status, risks and roadblocks, and aid team members to overcome obstacles by working collaboratively.
• Manage change control processes and maintain thorough documentation of system updates, upgrades, retirements and implementation.
• Lead the product lifecycle for key IT systems, from ideation through deployment and continuous improvement.
• Monitor system and application performance and conduct user feedback to inform iterative improvements with the goal of optimizing / simplifying the overall business tech stack.
• Prioritize, manage and execute against a focused backlog to deliver highest value initiatives in a timely manner.
• Partner with stakeholders and team members to facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement and team retrospectives.
• Stay current on technologies and best practices, ensuring that we are leveraging the best knowledge to achieve success.
• In this role, you may have the opportunity to travel up to 10% of the time, depending on project needs and available opportunities.

• Understanding of software development regarding design, configuration, testing and implementation.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and drive consensus in complex environments.
• Experience understanding and diagraming complex business processes, gathering functional requirements, providing support and guidance to internal IT teams and external vendors as they develop technical solutions.
• Experience building trusted relationships with key business stakeholders to understand their needs, influence and gain alignment on objectives.
• Ability to guide stakeholders through problem definition, requirements gathering, conceptual experimentation and implementation.
• Ability to drive and achieve improvement opportunities focusing on root cause analysis to enable self‑serve, automation, eliminating old processes and technologies, and continuous optimization of our long‑term valued systems.
• Experience working with software vendors or software development to solve business needs.

• Experience working in a construction environment, home office or field.
• Experience working within global AGILE® Teams and innovation…