Senior ALM Strategy & Solution Assessment Consultant (SAP / Enterprise ALM)

• Location: Ottawa, Ontario
• Remote: Hybrid
• Type: Contract
• Job #35476

Our client in the Federal Government is seeking a Senior Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Strategy & Solution Assessment Consultant to support a strategic enterprise initiative focused on evaluating and selecting the optimal Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for a major SAP transformation program.

Working alongside a senior consulting team, you will lead the assessment of leading ALM solutions, develop strategic recommendations, and build the implementation roadmap for the selected platform. This is a true consulting engagement requiring strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise architecture expertise—not a traditional staff augmentation role.

Responsibilities

The successful consultant will be responsible for:

• Lead an enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy assessment.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and gather business and technical requirements.
• Perform an options analysis comparing SAP Cloud ALM and other leading ALM platforms.
• Assess solution capabilities against business, technical, governance, and operational requirements.
• Develop recommendations for the target-state ALM platform.
• Prepare executive-level presentations and decision documentation.
• Develop implementation roadmap, delivery timeline, and cost estimates.
• Design interim solution strategies where required.
• Develop migration strategies from current-state to future-state ALM platform.
• Provide strategic consulting and advisory services to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with EY leadership and client governance throughout the engagement.

Required Experience

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 10+ years of consulting experience within enterprise IT transformation environments.
• Experience qualifying as a Level 3 TBIPS resource in one or more of the following categories:
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Functional Analyst
  • Technical Architect
  • Business Consultant
• Experience delivering at least three SAP implementation projects.
• Strong knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platforms.
• Experience evaluating enterprise software solutions and developing technology recommendations.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience developing business cases, implementation strategies, and roadmaps.
• Excellent workshop facilitation and requirements gathering experience.

Preferred Technical Experience

Hands-on or strategic experience with one or more of the following:

• SAP Cloud ALM
• SAP Solution Manager
• Azure DevOps
• Jira / Atlassian
• ServiceNow
• IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)
• Digital.ai

Preferred Methodologies

Experience with:

• SAP Activate
• SAP delivery methodologies
• Agile delivery frameworks
• Enterprise architecture
• IT Governance

ITSM Knowledge

Strong understanding of:

• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Release Management
• Service Level Management
• ITIL Framework

Nice to Have

Preference will be given to candidates with:

• Canadian Federal Government consulting experience
• Defence sector experience
• Enhanced Reliability Clearance (active)
• SAP transformation advisory experience
• Enterprise architecture consulting experience
• Strategy consulting within large enterprise organizations