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Senior Manager, Project Management

Fidelity

Fidelity

Administration
Covington, KY, USA
Posted on Sep 25, 2024

Job Description:

Position Description:

Develops and improves a mid-tier database platform that supports the recordkeeping and administration of health benefits and savings accounts. Delivers and analyzes end-to-end technical solutions and software applications that drive project efficiency measurements. Supports client-facing applications. Coordinates large-scale technology initiatives. Plans, executes, and delivers software applications using Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies — SCRUM. Facilitates large-scale software product initiatives by identifying and removing system impediments. Participates in software architecture, technical design, and software product implementation processes. Articulates technical information to business and other diverse partners/audiences. Improves production release and quality assurance of mid-tier platform features.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Works collaboratively with leadership to enable delivery through well-executed sprints.
  • Accelerates performance, efficiency, and value delivered by engaging across teams to find opportunities to improve agile maturity and metrics, and providing coaching, training and resources.
  • Maintains and updates performance metrics (burn-down charts) and artifacts.
  • Coordinates logistics for and participates in Agile events — backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily meetings, retrospectives, and scrum of scrum masters.
  • Improves customer experiences on digital channels in an Agile environment.
  • Identifies business requirements for projects of moderate scope.
  • Ensures project requirements are successfully incorporated into deployments.
  • Gathers support and approvals from Legal, Risk, and Compliance business partners prior to launching developments.
  • Applies design and data analysis best practices to opportunity identification.
  • Develops innovative methods to optimize processes.
  • Prepares or reviews operational or project progress reports.
  • Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
  • Assigns and reviews the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
  • Mentors junior team members.
  • Advises senior management on technical strategy.
  • Establishes and project manages analysis plans for multiple and complex work streams.
  • Elicits, captures, and interprets customer problems from multiple perspectives across projects or within a program.
  • Performs independent and complex analysis for multiple projects supporting several division initiatives.
  • Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
  • Presents implications and recommendations with a strategic perspective influencing project parameters and outcomes.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Business Administration, Finance, Applied Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Senior Manager, Product Management (or closely related occupation) managing and executing large scale projects in a FinTech or Health Benefits business area.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Business Administration, Finance, Applied Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Senior Manager, Product Management (or closely related occupation) managing and executing large scale projects in a FinTech or Health Benefits business area.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

  • Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) managing and leading the execution of distributed application development teams in developing enterprise software solutions — databases, record keeping, middle tier, and UX.
  • DE collaborating and performing delivery management in a Healthcare environment, using tools (JIRA, JIRA Align, Share Point, and Confluence) and data manipulation tools (DBeaver, TOAD, FlowMetrics, or PowerBI).
  • DE managing end-to-end deployment and install processes to facilitate feature delivery and client Go Live; providing project management to Scrum teams – creating and managing business requirements, design, development, and testing; and facilitating scrum events — daily scrum, backlog refinement, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint planning.
  • DE leading fast paced project delivery in Agile principles and processes; and liaising with delivery teams, business stake holders, and executive management to ensure streamlined project and product management/delivery.

Salary: $110,000.00 – $135,200.00/year.

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