Program/Project Management - BFSI

Job Description

- Single accountable party for defining, planning, orchestrating and delivering a given strategic initiative(s)

- Responsible for defining, planning, orchestrating, timely project communications, including periodic status reports

- Ensures clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business value and outcomes, rigorously managing scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost and quality parameters (proposing recommendations and adjustments as needed)

- Direct large scale complex projects

- Plan, drive, manage, and ensure successful execution of project process

- Monitor and report on project progress to ensure accordance with goals, schedules, and budget

- Identify project specific business/technical Stakeholders

- Defines and tracks project charter, integrated project plan, resource plan, risk plan and related project management artifacts

- Develop high & low-level project plans

- Directly oversee all Technology Delivery Life Cycle (TDLC) phases of a project

- Acquire updated estimates throughout (TDLC) phases.

- Work within IT Center of Excellence project management standards and participate in continuous improvement efforts

- Rigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost and quality parameters. Proposes recommendations and process change through defined change management procedures.

Experience (8-10 years)

- Applied experience with managing large scale, complex IT projects

- Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects

- Experience and familiarity with Insurance and Financial Services business systems strongly preferred

- Experience in project management, SDLC, ITIL and application or infrastructure solution development and deployment

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a closely related discipline required

- Program/Project Management Professional (PMI PMP) or equivalent certification preferred

- Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred