Senior Technical Project Manager at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Reston, Virginia

Job Description:

Resp & Qualifications

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Duties and Responsibilities
1. SDLC Project Management:
Manages system development lifecycle activities for technology product teams, develops detailed task level SDLC plans and directs technology product teams through all phases of the system development life-cycle. Manages SDLC activities for all SOWs and projects that impact a specific technology product.

Determines project and product goals and priorities, as related to the technology product they support, with management, program manager and/or project sponsors.

Supports requirements of the program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery.

Creates all detailed SDLC planning documentation for a given technology product team and follows all defined SDLC and Project Management Life-Cycle (PMLC) processes.

Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives as they relate to the technology product they support, and motivate the cross functional product team to achieve them; create an environment that enables peak performance by the entire matriced team.

Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities. Manages SDLC tasks and deliverables to meet project milestones on time and within budget.

Manages technology product teams comprised of business analysts, application architects, software engineers, and test engineers to deliver product enhancements and new products in accordance with the SOWs and programs. Coordinates with the program manager and upper level management to ensure the actions are consistent with the approved integrated project plan.

Prepares, implements, refines, and manages the SDLC project plan.
Identifies standards or requirements for change management. Participates in change control (for example, reviewing configuration change requests).

Develops or implements information systems security requirements and plans; and ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers.

Works with business leads to define and manage operational readiness.

Works with project tools and reports project status and executive reports as defined by the project plan.

Develops project schedules with the appropriate Work Break Down Structure and identifies the critical path of the project.
Oversees the requirements, design, construction, testing, and implementation of technical and functional specifications for a given technology product in accordance with the approved integrated project plan.

Identifies customers information systems requirements, participates in requirements specification documentation development, review and sign off.

Evaluates, monitors, or ensures compliance with laws, regulations, policies, standards or procedures associated with all aspects of project.

Negotiates Statement of Work/Scope of Services for technology products and services.

2. Project Monitoring and Control/Risk Management:

Analyze risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action. Gather stakeholder input, rank the top projects risks in terms of total impact.

Direct project controller in tracking and reporting on progress to plan, cost and schedule reporting and change control.

Manage change to preserve business plan commitments; initiate review if projects must change.

Communicate risks to program managers, stakeholders and business sponsors, escalate issues and risks for mitigation.

Facilitate regularly scheduled project meetings for the project team, workgroup, executive steering committee, risk planning and change control.

Provide Executive updates and reports to enable Executives to make informed and strategic decisions on project portfolio.

Program Management:
Defines and executes the overall approach and strategy for delivering small to medium technology delivery programs. Manages the full project management life cycle and software development life cycle for the implementation of small to medium scale technology delivery initiatives across CareFirst technology products and services.

Budget Management:
Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability for up to $5 million per year.

Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provides overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress.

Provides Finance with monthly accruals and forecasts by the due date established by Finance using the tools developed by Finance.

Maintains current statements of work for all contractors; track and approve contractor invoices in a timely manner.

Provides regular updates to project sponsor and stakeholders on the status of the budget.

Documents reasons for budget excess or shortfall.

Manages project budgets for both expense and capital against the original project budget.

Creates Executive Summaries for all contractor resources required to complete a project
Assists in skills development and training assessments for the Project Manager staff. Provides input on performance feedback for Project Manager staff.
Manages resource assignment and tracking to the project plan and project schedule in coordination with the line of program managers, business owners, and customers.

Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers in a matrix environment.

Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in SDLC project management practices; review quality of work and manage the integration of team members work.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Required: This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 5-7 years of related SDLC project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment. This will be built on a track record of implementing business solutions in core critical technologies in use at CareFirst in roles from developer through technical lead (Lead Software Engineer or equivalent).

Abilities/Skills:
Experience managing and delivering SDLC projects integrating leading-edge technologies and older legacy technologies
In-depth of knowledge of system development methodologies; understanding of technologies employed at CareFirst; experience managing matriced cross functional teams
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities across all phases of the system development life-cycle (SDLC) for multiple projects within the constraints of the product scope, resources, time, and budget
Demonstrated ability to facilitate the development of a WBS in partnership with functional teams
Ability to lead dynamic, energized, and highly creative multidiscipline high-performance work teams in learning and applying new skills/techniques to respond to business needs.
Leadership skills including: coaching, organizing, integrating, directing, controlling and motivating.
Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and persuade customers, employees, and management at all levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment.
Excellent oral and written communications; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding. Must be able to influence and partner with Functional Managers to achieve not only wins for own objectives and deliverables but also those of the broad organization.
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage the Customer relationship, including ability to manage Customer messaging and issue resolution.
Exceptional project management skills, effectively arranging resources and managing small to moderate projects in a cross-functional environment, work flow balancing, activity scheduling,

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