Senior IT Project Managers at Florida Blue are responsible for the overall direction, management, communication, coordination of status reports, and accountability of project-oriented work efforts and success of their projects across the IT organization. This position focuses on technical projects related to the design, development, execution, implementation or maintenance of systems or software. Manage projects with internal and external dependencies, moderate scope, risk of moderate severity & impact, integration within functional capabilities, moderate cost and typically longer duration within more than one team of resources.

Our Florida Blue Software development teams build innovative, enterprise-scalable end to end data analytics enabled products and services used by our internal users and external partners including Members, Providers, and Agents, with an emphasis on keeping health information secure and supporting network and data center infrastructure. We offer competitive salariesandbenefits, work-life balance,flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to workacross our family of companies!

Key Responsibilities

• Identify & resolve discrepancies in planned costs versus actual cost and overall financial management for assigned projects.
• Responsible for developing and reviewing/validating multiple project plans and approving plans.
• Understands the need for Business Case/ROI and ensures its completion.
• Participates in change initiatives including tasks and initiatives outside of specific job duties such as BRM workgroups.
• Responsible for developing and reviewing detailed project plans and tracking financial information.
• Communicate project status to project team, stakeholders' leadership and Program Managers associated with other projects.
• Advise project team, customers, and staff on tactical solutions to dealing with barriers within a project.
• Accountable for active facilitation of project issue resolution, change, risk and dependency management.
• Accountable for project delivery including meeting time, budget and quality standards and customer expectations.
• Creates and maintains relationships with stakeholders and team members in order to achieve mutual goals.

Required Experience

• 5+ years' experience in technical project management
• Proven project management success in a technical organization, with knowledge of Software Development terminology, processes, and practices
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of project tracking and management tools such as MS Tools (including project tracking, reports and outputs, Sharepoint, Rally), or similar tools
• Knowledge of Service Request Tool (like BART, Jenkins)
• Expert level proficiency in MS Project, and advanced proficiency in the use of labor, cost management and project tracking and management tools
• Advanced proficiency of SDLC disciplines and Agile methodology disciplines.
• Thorough understanding of the concepts, theories and processes of the Project Management Methodology (PMM).
• Proven success in communicating technical information clearly and articulately, to all levels and multiple disciplines
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Ability to Lead/Facilitate Core team or Steering meetings to obtain schedule, issues, risk, and dependency updates.
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies ( databases, applications, tools )

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

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