IT Senior Project Manager
The IT Technical Project Manager will be primarily responsible for leading one or more, complex, enterprise-wide projects with expertise in analysis, scope finalization, estimation, technical design, implementation and manage & deliver all phases of the project.
Responsibilities:
- Establishes and maintains a strong working relationship with IT senior leadership and Departmental managers throughout business areas.
- Responsible for Project Planning, estimation, negotiation, change management and delivery of the project.
- Responsible for clearly identifying the risks and issues and working with senior leaders in IT to mitigate them.
- Work directly with various levels of business users (executive, managers, and users) to document requirements, create visual diagrams/Prototype, review specifications, obtain approval, support UAT and post-production roll-out.
- Develop business and technical requirement documents as well as technical specifications.
- Supporting system design, SQL reports, quality assurance and user acceptance testing.
- Manages change control effectively, while considering business priorities, schedule & budget availability.
- Compiling detailed Metrics and status reports for senior leadership for decision making.
- Working with Offshore developers and external vendors to ensure specifications are understood, followed, and implemented properly.
- Participate in establishing and improving best practices, templates, policies, tools to expand and mature the capabilities of the organization.
- Tracking issues through JIRA and maintaining regular updates to sprint progress.
- Other day to day activities required for the IT department.
Professional Qualifications:
- 5+ years of IT Technical project management experience, planning, tracking and managing projects that successfully met timelines and budgets.
- Working experience with Agile/Scrum SDLC methodology.
- Experience in Vendor management roles with expert skills in requirements gathering with the ability to draw out requirements using a variety of methods to uncover needs.
- Ability to communicate technically complex IT concepts to internal and external business clients.
- Experience in P&C business implementing new applications and major enhancements. These include underwriting, claims systems is a plus.
- Experience in data integration and data quality projects is a plus.
- Ability to work with technical teams (developers, architects, QA, infrastructure), business partners and software vendors to document and implement system modifications on time and within budget.
- Excellent understanding of how technology impacts the business and evaluate new packages and softwares for the business needs.
- Hands on Development experience in the past is a plus.
- Experience working in cloud environment AWS, GCP or Azure is a plus.
Preferred Technical Skills:
- Understanding one or more technologies like React, Java, .net, Rest Api, XML and/or JSON languages.
- Strong SQL skills to query SQL databases is a must have.
- Managed Analytics and data related projects is a strong plus. P&C Insurance Policy Administration or claims System experience (Duck Creek, Guidewire, etc.) is a plus but not mandatory.
- Experience in Release management and managed automated deployments using any one of the CI/CD tools like Teamcity, Jenkins etc. is a plus but not required.
- Networking concepts as it relates to system design and implementation.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent college degree with relevant experience.
- PMP certification is a plus.
Physical Actions/Environment: Required job duties consist of prompt and regular attendance, ability to frequently move about the office to coordinate work with others; standing, sitting and typing for extended periods; and lifting and/or carrying up to 5 lbs. Ability to frequently communicate with others in-person, on the phone/virtually, and in writing. Ability to read, understand, process and evaluate large amounts of technical information and make related, informed decisions.
Starting Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 annually based on experience
Schedule: We offer flexible work hours between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, with options like 8-4, 8:30-4:30, or 9-5. We do our best to support individual preferences, though schedules may be adjusted as needed to ensure strong coverage and teamwork.
We also offer a hybrid schedule: team members work onsite four days a week and can work remotely one day a week.
Location: Southfield, MI or Princeton, NJ
