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IT Solutions Planning, Senior Advisor at Southern… · Rosemead
Job Description
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 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 AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.