Technology Program Director

Elevance Health•Indianapolis, IN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Provides leadership for multiple large/strategic enterprise wide programs made up of multiple projects. Manages projects of at least $20M+ in size or equal complexity. Typically reports to an executive.

Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 15 years of enterprise project management experience in broad-based information systems managing increasing project size and complexity that are transformational in nature for the organization, full life-cycle application development and/or building enterprise applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background
Requires experience in effective team environment, building strong relationships, negotiation, solving problems and issues, resolving conflicts, managing resources in a matrix environment, communicating and influencing effectively at all levels of an organization required and/or data warehouse planning and development
Excellent Project Management Skills required and able to manage with mostly remote associates

Nice To Haves

Experience in coaching and mentoring project team members strongly preferred
Experience using portfolio management application and Rational tools strongly preferred
Project management certification (PMP) strongly preferred
Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI, Google Cloud) is a must
Specific detailed and demonstrated managing a multi-year project more than 250 resources coming from multiple vendors and internal advisors
Specific OCI Exadata migration experience strongly preferred
Active Directory and Kerberos experience for AD integration with 2000 Oracle Databases while removing local ID’s from the database preferred
Other Skills – Jira, Sharepoint, OKV, OCI Vault, TDE, FLP (DB Vault and Datasafe), TLS/nne, preferred

Responsibilities

Provides strategic planning analysis to ELT concerning staffing needs on short to long term basis based on program projections
Provides strategic direction for developing enterprise project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risk, contingency plan and allocation of resources
Provides expert knowledge of project management methodology approaches, techniques and tools to senior management
Directs system analysts, software designers and programmers to determine best methods to achieve project objectives
Coaches and mentors project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology; determines project scope