Transformation IT Project Manager Architecture and Migration

Engineers And Constructors International

Job Location:

Houston, TX - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 86 - 135

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as a contract TransformationIT Project Manager - Architecture and Migration. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with an estimated start date of July 1st.Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.

The Lease Purchase System (LPS) is a core legacy trading system used primarily in US Products/Crude contexts to manage lease-based purchases and related financial processing. The LPS is the system of record for managing Shells US lease purchases handling commercial contractual and financial aspects of leased supply.What LPS actually does (businesswise)

LPS supports highvalue highvolume commercial activity including:
Deal and contract entry for leasebased purchases
Contract generation and maintenance
Pricing and runticket processing
Divisionofinterest (DOI) master data management
Payments and reporting including 1099 tax reporting
SOXcritical controls around contract and payment data

LPS is:

A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
Written mainly in COBOL/TELON with DB2 and VSAM
5 million lines of code
Integrated with Endur MCC and other downstream systems
Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:
Mainframe capacity limits
Emulator and licence costs
Integration complexity
Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already escaped into Access / spreadsheets)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Agree and deliver programs projects and workstreams to agreed time cost quality risk and benefit within Shells standards and controls framework.
Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope time cost and quality commitments.
Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
Engage internal and externalstakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products services and changes.
Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes and maximize benefits.
Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
Mobilizeand lead teams with a mixture ofstaffand suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team.
Ensure they have the necessary skills capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
Develop the skills of team members through coaching delegation and providing stretching assignments.
Understand assess and embed the right delivery methodologies considering project and business constraints.
Assess programrisks and evaluatetrade-offs between cost time quality risk and benefit managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams.
Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual.
Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit agreed and delivered.

Mandatory skills:

Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50.
Agile & waterfall methodology.
Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals Deepwater Retail Finance Legal HR. Cloud mobile SAS and digital. leadership communication and resilience. stakeholder management and enabling value creation.

Optional skills:

Business-value mindset critical thinking storytelling

Please Note: The ECI Group uses AI-assisted tools in the early stages of application review with all decisions guided by human oversight and fully compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ECI Groups applicable data protection policies and Privacy Notice.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Join the ECI Groups Professional Technical Services Network as a contract TransformationIT Project Manager - Architecture and Migration. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with an estimated start date of July 1st.Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US ...

LPS supports highvalue highvolume commercial activity including:
Deal and contract entry for leasebased purchases
Contract generation and maintenance
Pricing and runticket processing
Divisionofinterest (DOI) master data management
Payments and reporting including 1099 tax reporting
SOXcritical controls around contract and payment data

LPS is:

A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
Written mainly in COBOL/TELON with DB2 and VSAM
5 million lines of code
Integrated with Endur MCC and other downstream systems
Costly to run and increasingly constrained by:
Mainframe capacity limits
Emulator and licence costs
Integration complexity
Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already escaped into Access / spreadsheets)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Agree and deliver programs projects and workstreams to agreed time cost quality risk and benefit within Shells standards and controls framework.
Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope time cost and quality commitments.
Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
Engage internal and externalstakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products services and changes.
Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes and maximize benefits.
Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
Mobilizeand lead teams with a mixture ofstaffand suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team.
Ensure they have the necessary skills capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
Develop the skills of team members through coaching delegation and providing stretching assignments.
Understand assess and embed the right delivery methodologies considering project and business constraints.
Assess programrisks and evaluatetrade-offs between cost time quality risk and benefit managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams.
Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual.
Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit agreed and delivered.

Mandatory skills:

Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50.
Agile & waterfall methodology.
Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals Deepwater Retail Finance Legal HR. Cloud mobile SAS and digital. leadership communication and resilience. stakeholder management and enabling value creation.

Optional skills: