The Role
Lead planning, execution, and closure of IAM projects and programs. Develop requirements, manage resources and vendors, integrate project plans, monitor milestones/risks, report to stakeholders, and mentor team members to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
Responsible for managing all aspects of the planning, execution, controlling, and closure of projects/programs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Receives high-level business requirements and develops detailed requirements. Prioritizes efforts and maintains and manages inter and intra project dependencies.
- Refines resource requirements and forms project teams. Further defines estimates for financial, physical or human resources to support long-term projects and programs.
- Champions the development of best practices, project standards, procedures and quality objectives across multiple projects/programs and organizations. Utilizes established project standards, procedures and quality objectives.
- Conducts project kickoff meetings, communicating individual roles and project/program expectations and ensuring that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.
- Integrates detailed project plans and schedules into a master program plan.
- Provides work direction and leadership to assigned programs, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of individual project efforts. May manage project/product leads.
- As needed, facilitates the evaluation, selection and contract negotiation for external vendors and independent contractors. Manages relationship with external vendors working to support project requirements. Assesses performance against project milestones/schedule, metrics, scope, quality as defined by contract specifications. Acts as liaison between business client and vendor.
- Makes presentations to solicit program buy-in, report on project status, conduct problem resolution and other types of communication to a variety of audiences.
- Monitors program milestones and critical dates, scopes, cost and quality to identify potential risks. Initiates ways to resolve schedule and other project-related issues. Keeps management aware of the situation. Manages any effects on related projects.
- Assesses variances from the program and project plans, integrates metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost and quality objectives. Ensures that business owner and/or project executive sponsor has a process to track outcome and satisfaction metrics. Manages effects on related projects.
- Conducts project review and closure at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction of the program and each related project.
- Continuously provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project or overall program performance. Works with development team to integrate areas of improvement into the systems development life cycle and project management processes.
- Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with program stakeholders.
- Coaches or mentors less experienced personnel. May conduct performance reviews and career planning sessions.
- Performs other duties as assigned. One example of this would be to personally manage projects when such a need arises.
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Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a related field, specialized training or equivalent work experience
- Eight years of IT project management experience and two years of experience managing major projects
- Successful completion of a recognized project management training or equivalent project management work experience
- Working knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Experience with projects in multiple technologies and business functions
- Experience across a range of IAM technologies, such as SailPoint, OKTA, CyberArk and Directory services, as well as other identity governance, SSO, MFA and PAM tools.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, specialized training or equivalent work experience
- Eight years of IT project management experience and two years of experience managing major projects
- Successful completion of a recognized project management training or equivalent project management work experience
- Working knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle
- Experience with projects in multiple technologies and business functions
- Experience across a range of IAM technologies such as SailPoint, OKTA, CyberArk and Directory services, and identity governance, SSO, MFA and PAM tools
HMSA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about HMSA and has not been reviewed or approved by HMSA.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical and dental coverage are described as solid, with preventive services and select zero‑cost features adding value in recent plan years. Employer-sponsored plans can have affordable premiums in certain groups and broad access options.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and potential discretionary contributions forms a strong component of total rewards. Retirement support complements the core medical and dental package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and PTO that increases with tenure provide meaningful time‑off flexibility. Time‑away benefits scale with service length.
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The Company
What We Do
The Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, is a reliable name in Hawaii health care. Established in 1938, we are the largest and most experienced provider of health care coverage in the state. Over half of Hawaii’s population have chosen HMSA for their health care coverage. We are dedicated to providing quality, affordable health plans; employee benefit services; and worksite wellness programs. HMSA also offers a variety of programs, services and support to help improve the health and well-being of our members and community.
