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Project Manager
Lead cross functional project teams and collaborate with various workstreams to manage project timelines, milestones, dependencies and be able to communicate and mitigate any foreseeable risks, issues. Leads the Technical project team, assesses people and budget requirements, and works with the project sponsor to ensure alignment with the overall business strategy. Collaborate and lead project delivery through strong stakeholder and vendor relationship management. Ensures compliance with the SDLC methodology for tasks, documentation, modifications, conversions, and implementation. Ensuring tools/documentation are consistent and consistently leveraged across all projects. Defining and managing detailed project plans in MS Project. Develop, monitor, and report on all project/program tasks and deliverables; actively manage the resource plan; and tightly manage the project budget, approved funding, forecasts, and actuals. Ongoing and targeted documentation and communication to various audiences to drive awareness and engagement. Be accountable to business sponsors and management to drive delivery of quality solutions tied to clearly understood business problems and benefits. This includes holding yourself and the project team accountable for delivering objectives on time and with quality, with an eye on scope and budget. Responsible for the overall project plan, schedule, and budget, as well as project status monitoring and reporting. Manages and mitigates project risks and issues and escalation of same when necessary. Lead team through issue resolution as quickly as possible, avoiding impact to schedule. Manage conflict and prioritization so as to prevent any delay to the schedule. Leading the timely delivery of platform enhancements and/or complex initiatives. Partnering with internal and external subject matter experts and other resources (business, technical, compliance, communications, vendor, etc.) to define and execute plans for each delivery. Accountability to key stakeholders to provide status on progress. Gain recognition as a trusted advisor and leader with our customers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization across business and IT. This can include providing input into and/or influence business strategies and direction that determine and shape projects. Implement strategies that deliver project(s) on time and within budget. Remove barriers to enable project team to complete objectives no matter how difficult. Drive and influence decisions while also assessing risk and impact. Effectively negotiate priorities and solutions.
Skills and Qualifications Required
- PMP certification or similar; Fluent with PMBOK methodology required
- Agile methodologies required, CSM preferred but not required
- Strong Project Management tool background - MS Office Project, Excel, Word, Outlook required
- 3-5 years of experience in financial services/insurance industry required
- 4 years IT experience managing large sized IT program or portfolio, including experience with integrations required
- 2 years vendor management and contract negotiations (SOW/Invoice) required
- Strong financial acumen experience managing program/portfolio budget
- Bachelors
For more information please contact Vijay Karney at 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.
iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
