IT Project Manager/Financials/RPA

IT Project Manager/Financials/RPA MM1244795612 Month Contract Springfield, MA - Remote to start due to COVID Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future Requirements:

• Knowledge or experience in Robotic Process Automation and testing automation frameworks
• Knowledge or experience with the usage of strategic enterprise patterns in SDLC
• Knowledge or experience with Mainframe / legacy systems delivery/implementation
• Background or experience with programming or scripting
• Experience, or working knowledge, of Financial Service / Life Insurance concepts and business data
• Experience working with Agile development processes and methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Technical Lead / IT Project/Program Management experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in an IT lead delivery, business analyst, technical project management, or similar role
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a management, leadership, or similar role
• Capable of leading technical teams to implement broad scope projects
• Skilled in problem solving and technical analysis
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Effective relationship building skills
• Ability to influence peers, leaders and business customers
• Collaborative team player focused on achieving personal accomplishments through making those around you successful

• Contribute to the development of financial and resource planning needed to achieve department business objectives
• Work with users, partners, and cross functional teams to provide project support, resolve questions, assess needs, and recommend changes; sought as a key resource for resolution of unique or complex business problems
• Triage incoming demand and help projects get ready for developers
• Select, manage, develop, coach, and motivate staff members
• Manage available resources at the single or multi- departmental level
• Participate as member of the management team that develops strategies for the larger organization
• Coordinate technical integration across tracks of work
• Support and drive change management of existing and new processes
• Develop and ensure practical implementation of governance for software robotics
• Assist with creating and providing high-level estimates for project planning
• Translate technical concepts into business terms and vice versa
• Raise risks and issues and serve as a project/program primary point of escalation
• Ensure all deliverables (oftentimes complex/interdisciplinary/interlinked) are clearly specified, scoped and agreed to between the project team and our internal team(s)
• Remove barriers to enable the project team to complete objectives; drive and influence decisions
• Drive initiatives to ensure they align with the program roadmap and can be adhered to within project schedule and budget
• Assist the developers in the overall delivery across systems; identify gaps, problems and dependencies between individual teams/groups and systems
• Collaborate with Product Owners, business leadership, architects, developers and vendors to ensure alignment on program strategy and execution
• Operate independently on multiple project tasks and complexities
• Identify improvement opportunities across teams and address as needed
• Coordinate and facilitate large program planning sessions and support delivery by coordinating cross-functional technical teams
• Facilitate program retrospectives and use of program metrics to champion the team(s) through their challenges
• Design insightful reporting for business process improvement and benefit realization
• Facilitate workshops, working with process owners/SMEs and technology teams to analyze and assess automation feasibility, as well as analyze and document business requirements, processes and work instructions