IT Project Management Senior Advisor

Company: Strategic Staffing Solutions
Location: Saint Louis
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

IT Project Management Senior Advisor Contract: 6 months Location: St Louis, MO Pay Rate: $50+ Duties:
* Responsible for managing, directing and planning complex projects, or occasionally one highly-complex project, consisting of one or more project teams in an agile environment.* Coordinating, scheduling and assigning project tasks, team building, maintaining working relationships with client functional areas outside of IT.* Applies agile project development methodologies and reporting techniques to indicate project status.* May manage and direct one or more project teams of project managers, specialists, analysts and programmers to meet complex project objectives.* Reviews, evaluates and formulates project plans, schedules and budgets.* Allocates staff and budget resources to meet changing corporate needs.* Identifies and negotiates schedules, milestones and resources required to meet project objectives.* Organizes and guides project operations through the use of methodologies accepted by the industry.* Reports on progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects.* Modifies schedules as required.* Works with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support.* Keeps informed of technical and managerial advances in IT.* Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines.* Recognized internally as "the go-to person" for the most complex IT Project Management assignments.
Experience:
* Will be responsible for multiple concurrent projects that can cross multiple product teams* Senior level Agile Project Management experience is a must as they will need understand the "how" and "why" of the initiatives* Attention to detail and an ability to craft communication for Sr. Leaders within Business and Technology* Need to support teams with delivery planning and dependency discussions about work that is currently in progress and upcoming* Ability to organize and track development progress against target deliverables* Experience working in Agile environments is highly desirable* Experience with Jira and Jira Align is highly preferred, but not required, as teams utilize these tools to track and monitor work* Previous experience working for Express Scripts/Cigna is highly desirable
Education:
* Bachelor degree OR equivalent work experience
Additional Skills:
* AGILE* JIRA* SYSTEMS TESTING* METRICS* TEAM BUILDING* BUDGET* SCHEDULING* PROJECT DEVELOPMENT* THOUGHT LEADERSHIP* MANAGERIAL* BUDGETS* OPERATIONS* PROJECT PLANSPDN-993554ad-3645-40ca-9827-605fedafa1cb

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