Project Manager ( and P&C Insurance Exp)
Location NYC NY (Onsite)
6 months
Key Responsibilities:
Project Planning & Execution:
- Develop detailed project plans including scope timelines and resource allocation.
- Lead projects from initiation to completion ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders including clients team members and senior management.
- Communicate project goals progress and risks effectively to all stakeholders.
- Risk Management:
- Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Monitor and control project risks to minimize impact on project delivery.
Financial Management:
- Manage project budgets including cost forecasting and reconciliation.
- Ensure projects are delivered within budget and financial constraints.
- Team Coordination:
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams including IT business analysts and operations.
- Resolve resource and scheduling conflicts in a matrixed organization.
Process Improvement:
- Implement process improvements using methodologies like Six Sigma to enhance project efficiency and success.
Client Interaction:
- Maintain and build relationships with insurance companies and clients.
- Negotiate and manage quotes binders endorsements and renewals for existing customers.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 years of project management experience in the P&C insurance industry.
- Bachelors degree in business Insurance or a related field.
- PMP PgMP or Scrum Master Certification preferred.
- Strong understanding of insurance processes regulations and market trends.
- Excellent communication leadership and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in project management software and tools.
- Familiarity with program management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project JIRA Rally).
Mandatory Qualifications
- Strong understanding of design patterns like Factory Adapter etc.
- Experience in implementing SOLID principles DDD Clean architecture.
- Strong experience in .NET Framework 4 or above. Web API.
- Good understanding of and C# and working with heterogenous code base.
- Good understanding of JavaScript frameworks Bootstrap JQuery etc.
- Strong understanding of RDBMS database using SQL Server and SQL programming.
- Should have a confidence to refactor and modernize the code base.
- Must have experience in technical design documentation coding standards and implement those.
- Understanding of best performance oriented & maintainable coding practices.
- Understanding of functional testing using BDD is a plus.
- Experience in Agile Scrum methodology.
- Should have good communication skills.
Key Competencies:
- Strategic thinking with a focus on delivering value to the business.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Adaptable and flexible in a rapidly changing environment.
- Strong leadership and team-building abilities.
Client Specific Responsibilities
- Following are the day-to-day work activities:
- Interact with business users to understand the requirements.
- Provide the technical solution for requirements based on the defined architecture and guidelines.
- Participate in overall application architecture and solutioning.
- Estimating work items using know estimation techniques and planning the work.
- Create/maintain the dev artefacts .
- Support the release activity.
- Perform code reviews to maintain a defect free and quality code base.
- Hands on coding and guiding the dev team in implementing the technical solutions
- Involve and oversee QA efforts and defining the QA strategy.
- Take lead in gathering and reporting the daily status to onsite client management.