It Delivery Lead Ii

JOB DESCRIPTION

Overview:  
 
 
 
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family, dental and vision, plans for employers, etc. 
 
 
 
Title: IT Delivery Lead II
 
Work Location: Detroit, MI 48226
 
Duration: 7 Months
 
Job Type: Contract 
 
Work Type: Remote
 
Dept: Senior Health Srvcs IT
 
  
 
Job Description:  
 
 
Engagement Description:
 
 
Has a project team, including senior technical personnel reporting to them. 
 
Requires extensive knowledge of the supported business area as well as the area being managed. 
 
Reviews scopes/plans and prioritizes one or more projects. 
 
Assures adherence to corporate policies and project delivery procedures. 
 
Reviews and ensures a high level of quality and service are maintained by meeting or exceeding commitments. 
 
Initiates, develops and enforces standards and procedures in support of improved service. 
 
May be heavily involved in technical decision-making activities. 
 
Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. 
 
Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs.  
 
 
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following, other duties may be assigned:
 
 
The selected individual will manage, facilitate, and create enterprise level visibility of the overall progress, dependency, issues, and risks across the various projects. The individual must be able to straddle in/out of technical and operational status details and produce succinct assessment of overall direction of the projects at any point on the execution timeline by:
 
Overseeing/maintaining a multi-year cross-program execution schedule
 
Monitoring inventory and development of technical widgets, vendor deliverables and other work packages involved in delivery of multiple, concurrent, cross-Program releases
 
Participating in quality reviews of conceptual designs, detail designs and detail test plans
 
Collaborating with project leadership teams and change control committee(s) to monitor dependencies and schedule impacts as they relate to project deployments
 
Supporting IT leadership with issue, risk and defect resolution/escalations as appropriate
 
Monitoring and supporting the adherence to the overall test strategy across programs
 
Analyze and document information and data required to achieve business goals
 
Conduct formal and informal meetings with appropriate subject matter experts in both large group and one-on-one sessions
 
Facilitation/leading of detailed requirement sessions
 
Define project scope
 
Develop project work breakdown structures
 
Define and sequence project activities
 
Work with subject matter experts to estimate activity resources and durations
 
Develop project schedules, budget and resource forecast
 
Develop project communication plans
 
Develop project quality plans
 
Develop and maintain project plans
 
Identify and manage project risks in coordination with project delivery standards
 
Manage project execution and IT delivery, providing day-to-day project leadership
 
Provide status reporting consistent with the project communications plan
 
Manage to work stream success through close coordination and cooperation with business leads and IT technical leads
 
Facilitate the IT architecture solution and detailed design
 
Manage project skills and staffing plan and identify resource gaps and contention issues
 
Manage progress of project milestones and deliverables
 
Facilitate issue resolution and decision framework processes
 
 
Required Skills/Experience:
 
 
Mandatory - Prior Healthcare Payer processing systems (Claims, Membership, Eligibility, etc)**
 
Facilitate the IT architecture solution and detailed design
 
A high proficiency level in specific job-related skills is required
 
Providing strategic planning and comprehensive senior level technical consulting to IT senior management and senior technical staff
 
Evaluating compliance with the organization's technology standards
 
Guiding and consulting with IT management and technical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associated services
 
Participating in the evaluation, selection and application of new and emerging tools and techniques
 
Has wide latitude in determining creative solutions to strategic and operational needs
 
 
Preferred Skills/Experience:
 
 
Minimum 5 years related experience preferred
 
 
Educational Requirements:
 
 
Master's degree in related field preferred
 
 
Top Three Skills/Experience:
 
 
Manage project execution and IT delivery of healthcare payer projects, providing day-to-day project leadership
 
Manage multiple work streams of IT project delivery including financial management via close coordination/cooperation with Business Leads and IT Technical Leads
 
Able to facilitate/lead requirements gathering sessions and build the business requirements document
 
 
 
TekWissen   Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.