IT Delivery Lead II

IT Delivery Lead II

Detroit, Michigan

Category:
Project Management

Job Type: Pipeline

Location:

Detroit, Michigan

Pay Rate: $0

Engagement Description

• Has a project team, including senior technical personnel reporting to them.
• Requires extensive knowledge of the supported business area as well as the area being managed.
• Reviews scopes/plans and prioritizes one or more projects.
• Assures adherence to corporate policies and project delivery procedures.
• Reviews and ensures a high level of quality and service are maintained by meeting or exceeding commitments.
• Initiates, develops and enforces standards and procedures in support of improved service.
• May be heavily involved in technical decision-making activities.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

• The selected individual will manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects.
• The individual must be able to straddle in/out of technical and operational status details and produce succinct assessment of overall direction of the projects at any point on the execution timeline by:
  • Overseeing/maintaining a multi-year cross-program execution schedule
  • Monitoring inventory and development of technical widgets, vendor deliverables and other work packages involved in delivery of multiple, concurrent, cross-Program releases
  • Participating in quality reviews of conceptual designs, detail designs and detail test plans
  • Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments
  • Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate
  • Monitoring and supporting the adherence to the overall test strategy across programs
  • Analyze and document information and data required to achieve business goals
  • Conduct formal and informal meetings with appropriate subject matter experts in both large group and one-on-one sessions
  • Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions
  • Define project scope
  • Develop project work breakdown structures
  • Define and sequence project activities
  • Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations
  • Develop project schedules, budget and resource forecast
  • Develop project communication plans
  • Develop project quality plans
  • Develop and maintain project plans
  • Identify and manage project risks in coordination with project delivery standards
  • Manage project execution and IT delivery, providing day-to-day project leadership
  • Provide status reporting consistent with the project communications plan
  • Manage to work stream success through close coordination and cooperation with business leads and IT technical leads
  • Facilitate the IT architecture solution and detailed design
  • Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues
  • Manage progress of project milestones and deliverables
  • Facilitate issue resolution and decision framework processes

Required Skills/Experience

• Mandatory - Prior Healthcare Payer processing systems (Claims, Membership, Eligibility, etc)
• Facilitate the IT architecture solution and detailed design
• A high proficiency level in specific job-related skills is required
• Providing strategic planning and comprehensive senior level technical consulting to IT senior management and senior technical staff
• Evaluating compliance with the organization's technology standards
• Guiding and consulting with IT management and technical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associated services
• Participating in the evaluation, selection and application of new and emerging tools and techniques
• Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Minimum 5 years related experience preferred

Educational Requirements

• Master's degree in related field preferred