Senior IT Project Manager

Humana • Louisville, KY

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior IT Project Manager leads large, complex technology initiatives with significant business impact. This role is responsible for end‑to‑end delivery across cross‑functional teams, ensuring that projects and programs are executed with excellence, risks are proactively managed, and stakeholders receive clear and consistent communication throughout the delivery lifecycle. Senior IT Project Managers operate with a high degree of autonomy, influence strategic decisions, and help strengthen project delivery discipline across IT. This role partners closely with business leaders, architects, engineering, finance, and PMO leadership to ensure alignment, transparency, and delivery of expected outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, Information Technology, or related field
• 5+ years of IT project management experience
• 3+ experience delivering concurrent complex technical initiatives end‑to‑end
• 1+ years' experience with technical product selection, design, and IT solution implementation preferrably in health, finance, or other highly regulated industries
• Excellent communication including executive level
• 3+ years' experience with SDLC

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business or related field
• Experience with management tools including Jira Align, Microsoft Azure devops, PowerBI, Servicenow PPM
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Python, ETL work, data projects, web projects, or backend API development.
• Certifications: PMP, PMI‑ACP, SAFe, Six Sigma, or comparable

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale, complex IT projects and multi-workstream programs with cross-functional dependencies.
• Develop and manage detailed schedules, scope, budgets, risks, and interdependencies.
• Proactively identify delivery risks, drive mitigation strategies, and escalate when necessary.
• Intervene early to stabilize at‑risk work and ensure successful execution.
• Ensure adherence to standard project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid).
• Serve as a primary point of contact for project executives, business owners, and technical leaders.
• Deliver clear, concise, and executive‑ready updates on health, milestones, risks, and decisions.
• Facilitate steering committee and governance meetings for assigned initiatives.
• Build trusted partnerships across technology and business areas.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to manage cross‑project dependencies and readiness checkpoints.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, portfolio management, finance, and operations.
• Align project execution with broader program or portfolio objectives.
• Ensure that teams understand how their deliverables integrate into the larger initiative.
• Apply strong expertise in SDLC, ITIL, and industry-standard PM practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes, templates, and tools.
• Champion transparency, accuracy, and consistency in status reporting.
• Maintain rigorous control over scope, schedule, quality, and financials.
• Offer guidance to junior PMs and project coordinators as a senior practitioner.
• Influence project planning, technical approach, and solution delivery strategy including overall business value strategy
• Identify systemic risks, process gaps, and improvement opportunities across initiatives.
• Represent delivery excellence values and reinforce PMO standards.
• Use your skills to make an impact

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance
• many other opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior