IT Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager will be primarily responsible for leading one or more, complex, enterprise wide projects with expertise in analysis, scope finalization, estimation, technical design, implementation and manage & deliver all phases of the project. Responsibilities also include working on General Ledger/Accounts Payable projects and associated integrations.

Responsibilities include:
• Establishes and maintains a strong working relationship with IT senior leadership and Departmental managers throughout business areas.
• Responsible for Project Planning, estimation, negotiation, change management and delivery of the project.
• Responsible for Clearly identifying the risks and issues and working with senior leaders in IT to mitigate them.
• Responsible for working with the Finance team to implement the new GL system and future maintenance.
• Work directly with various levels of business users (executive, managers, and users) to document requirements, create visual diagrams/Prototype, review specifications, obtain approval, support UAT and post-production roll-out.
• Develop business and technical requirement documents as well as technical specifications.
• Supporting system design, SQL reports, quality assurance and user acceptance testing.
• Manages change control effectively, while considering business priorities, schedule & budget availability
• Compiling detailed Metrics and status reports for senior leadership for decision making
• Working with Offshore developers and external vendors to ensure specifications are understood, followed, and implemented properly.
• Participate in establishing and improving best practices, templates, policies, tools to expand and mature the capabilities of the organization
• Tracking issues through JIRA and maintaining regular updates to sprint progress.
• Other day today activities required for the IT department.

Professional Qualifications:
• 5+ years of IT Technical project management experience, planning, tracking and managing projects that successfully met timelines and budgets.
• 3+ years of analyst experience in any one of the Financial packages like Sage Intact, Sungard, Netsuite, etc.

• Experience in Vendor management roles with expert skills in requirements gathering with the ability to draw out requirements using a variety of methods to uncover needs.
• Ability to communicate technically complex IT concepts to internal and external business clients.
• Managed Financial General Ledger and back office projects and integrations is required.
• Experience in P&C business implementing new applications and major enhancements. These include underwriting, claims systems is a strong plus.
• Thorough understanding of the underwriting process included the policy lifecycle, coverages, endorsements, forms, rating, etc.
• Experience in data integration and data quality projects is a plus.
• Ability to work with technical teams (developers, architects, QA, infrastructure), business partners and software vendors to document and implement system modifications on time and within budget.
• Excellent understanding of how technology impacts the business and evaluate new packages and softwares for the business needs.
• Hands on Development experience in the past is a strong plus.
• Experience working in cloud environment AWS, GCP or Azure is a plus.

Preferred Technical Skills:
• P&C Insurance Policy Administration or claims System experience (Duck Creek, Guidewire, etc.) is a plus.
• Understanding one or more technologies like React, Java, .net, Rest Api, XML and/or JSON languages.
• Strong SQL skills to query SQL databases.
• Managed Analytics and data related projects is a strong plus.
• Experience in Release management and managed automated deployments using any one of the CI/CD tools like Teamcity ,Jenkins etc is a plus not required.
• Networking concepts as it relates to system design and implementation.

Education:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent college degree with relevant experience.
• PMP certification is a plus.