Overview
Remote
On Site
Hybrid
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 11+ mo(s)
Skills
program manager
project manager
jira
cigna
healthcare
Job Details
Program Manager
Skills:
Remote position. Candidate must be located near St. Louis in case onsite meetings or work becomes necessary. The team is also willing to consider candidates local to Morris Planes, NJ, or Bloomington, MN, though the preference is for St. Louis.
Duties:
- Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant IT Project Management matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. Responsible for managing, directing, and planning multiple complex projects, or occasionally one highly complex project, consisting of one or more project teams. Responsible for coordinating, scheduling, and assigning project tasks, team building, and maintaining working relationships with client functional areas outside of IT. Applies project development methodologies and reporting techniques to indicate project status. May manage and direct one or more project teams of project managers, specialists, analysts and programmers to meet complex project objectives. Reviews, evaluates and formulates project plans, schedules and budgets. Allocates staff and budget resources to meet changing corporate needs. Identifies and negotiates schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives. Organizes and guides project operations through the use of methodologies accepted by the industry. Evaluates progress and reports progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects. Modifies schedules as required. Works with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support. Keeps informed of technical and managerial advances in IT. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. Recognized internally as the go-to person for the most complex IT Project Management assignments.
Skills:
- 5-7 years experience as a Program Manager
- Experience leading very large (multi-million dollar) projects from a delivery management perspective.
- Responsibilities would include:
- Will be responsible for multiple concurrent projects that can cross multiple product teams
- Senior-level Agile Project Management experience is a must as they will need to understand the how and why of the initiatives
- Attention to detail and an ability to craft communication for Sr. Leaders within Business and Technology
- Need to support teams with delivery planning and dependency discussions about work that is currently in progress and upcoming
- Ability to organize and track development progress against target deliverables
- Experience working in Agile environments is highly desirable
- Experience with Jira is highly preferred, but not required, as teams utilize Jira to track and monitor work
- Previous experience working for our client in healthcare is highly desirable
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla or
Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.
Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.
Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.