Project Lead

• Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team in their delivery.
  
• Providing support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
  
• Guiding and Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers.
  
• Guiding and Coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on how to get the most of self organization.
  
• Guiding and Coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
  
• Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
  
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
  
• Coordinates and leads activities with business owners to gather detailed requirements from through interviews documentation and facilitated working sessions for approved projects and enhancements. Monitors business decisions and manages requirements documentation and communication.
  
• Leads analysis of requirements to determine the systems potential and defines impact to other business units and addition provides input to the development effort.
  
• Creates process models based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components.
  
• Provides Customers with cost/benefit analysis risk assessment scope definition of proposed requirements.
  
• Guides users in building business case; Performs impact analysis; Supports application testing implementation and training activities throughout the process.
  
• Leads individual or sub project tasks affecting single or multiple business and IT departments.
  
• Evaluates project impact through consultation with the business regulatory Information Technology management development quality assurance validation and training teams.
  
• Supports system configuration and integration testing including the functionality performance and fit to ensure original requirements are met.
  
• Evaluates project impact through consultation with the business regulatory Information Technology management development quality assurance validation and training teams.
  
• Manages work plans timelines and budgets. Evaluates relative feedback and Return On Investment to effectively prioritize projects. Evaluates project impact through consultation with the business regulatory Information Technology management development quality assurance validation and training teams. Partners with stakeholders to identify necessary department resources to meet defined objectives.
  
• Performs business process modeling and re-engineering based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components.
  
• Utilizes Unified Modeling Language tools in creating Use Cases Class and Sequence Diagrams based on the product design documentation.
  
• Performs system configuration and integration testing including the functionality performance and fit to ensure original requirements are met.
  
• Mentors team members in technology architecture and delivery of applications.
  

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or Computer Science or Engineering and 8 or more years of experience in the Information Technology area OR High School Diploma or Equivalent and 10 or more years of experience in the Information Technology area
  
• Project Management experience.
  
• Experience with process modeling tools
  
• Insurance application system design/analysis experience
  
• Experience with use case development
  
• Experience with Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools/techniques
  

Preferred:

• Advanced Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) skills
  
• Consulting experience
  
• Experience in a analytical role on complex enterprise projects
  
• Knowledge of financial services industry
  
• In-depth knowledge of insurance business processes and processing
  
• Strong analytical skills
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills