Project & Program Manager III

IT Delivery Lead/Project Manager

Currently seeking an Agile and Waterfall IT Delivery Lead/Project Manager within the Informatics department. This Delivery Lead/Project Manager will work independently within guidelines, be responsible for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing application and system implementation projects using a formal project management process. Work will consist of a mix of complex and medium sized projects.

Essential Company

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain detailed work plan and schedule for agile and/or waterfall projects
• Coordinate with resource managers to ensure the teams have provided the appropriate resources with available capacity to perform the work expected for the project
• Track all project financials (budget, actuals, forecast, earned value)
• Track, manage and escalate all risks, actions/changes, issues and decisions in appropriate project logs
• Facilitate all project change requests and coordinate approvals
• Coordinate and participate in all project related meetings
• Prepare and communicate weekly detailed project status
• Adhere to project governance policies, procedures, and methodologies
• Responsible for ensuring all project artifacts/deliverables/approvals are obtained and stored in the project documentation repository within defined project deadlines

Top Three Required Skills /

Experience:

• Strong Agile Project Management skills. Excellent analytical, logical reasoning, organizational, verbal and written communication skills and attention to details a must.
• Must be able to exhibit in relation to data integration and management experience with, Data Integration and Management solutions
• Excellent consultative skills and must demonstrate ability to understand business needs, identify solutions based on those needs and build relationship with business partners and IT team. Self-starter and independent. Willing to do what it takes.

Required Skills/

Experience:

• Proven experience managing projects at various levels of complexity using different project management methodologies
• Excellent analytical, logical reasoning, organizational, verbal and written communication skills and attention to details a must. Must be able to exhibit in relation to data integration and management
• Must demonstrate ability to understand business needs, identify solutions based on those needs and build relationship with business partners and IT team
• Experience leading a matrix project team to define, establish, and ensure completion of all program milestones while adhering to timelines and budgets
• Prior experience with data movement and integration or BI solutions
• Experience in creating and managing detailed project plans for small to high complexity projects
• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

Preferred Skills/

Experience:

• Prior experience in healthcare or payer industry is preferred
• Distributed application development experience
• System Analysis experience preferred
• MS Project or similar project management tools, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Visio