W2 ROLE - IT Agile Project Manager

Must Have Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in Agile/SAFe IT project and release management ideally in the Healthcare Insurance domain
• 7+ years of experience with Stakeholder communication and presentation, leading meetings and governance reviews, clear status reports and translating technical progress into business language
• 7+ years of experience leveraging Agile tools and dashboards (Jira, Visio, Roadmaps, Backlog grooming, Spring planning) to identify and manage risk

Duties:

• Responsible for supporting cross technical product level initiatives in the Deliver Phase and success of assigned initiatives.
• Assess priorities against business value to ensure Program Epic Release schedule is aligned to business priorities.
• Responsible for managing, directing and planning delivery management of assigned program epics consisting of one or more project teams.
• In the deliver phase, supports the portfolio across multiple initiatives, analyzing reports, collaborating with cross-functional teams, monitoring process, facilitating initiative / Program Epic level meetings.
• Optimize results within resource and time constraints.
• Collaborate and facilitate initiative / Program Epic level communication and meetings with TPO's, BPO's, Engineers, Scrum Masters and other leaders to assure full alignment.
• Define release schedules, identify dependences, solutions to business problems, and provide updates as priorities and schedules change.
• Oversee the governance structure across the initiative teams.
• Manage risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Identifies and negotiates schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives in partnership with the BPO organization.
• Drive activities to achieve aligned goals.
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, and status reports.
• Conduct necessary meetings and is responsible for schedule and status tracking.
• Conduct presentations regarding project status to cross functional IT teams and business stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to project management process and project documentation standards.
• Works with project impacting cross-functional teams to ensure system testing is performed and accomplished in line with the acceptance criteria.
• Work on Regulatory portfolio initiatives as assigned.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to multitask and facilitate cross-team discussion MS-Office skills - Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint Familiarity with Jira and Agile Methodologies

Required Skills:

• Excel
• Project Management
• Office Skills
• Agile
• Visio

Additional Skills:

• JIRA
• IT Project Management
• Mitigation
• Epic
• Project Documentation
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Scrum
• Governance

Education:

• 2-5 years of experience
• College Degree preferred