Role: Delivery Manager
Duration: Contract to Hire
Location: 100% Remote
Taxterm-W2
Job Description
Summary:
Serve as single technical coordination point for multiple projects and initiatives for IT. Serve as primary interface to key business areas and stakeholders and provide matrixed leadership to project team members by facilitating planning, leading, and tracking progress, and reporting issues and status to IT management and business areas
Project / Capability Delivery
• Provide oversight and coordination of all projects related technical activities and work streams for work products across IT during the systems development lifecycle (SDLC); ensure that high quality solutions are delivered according to the agreed-to schedule. This includes, but is not limited to, discovery / planning, design, development and testing activities.
o Create, with input from the project team, the IT portion of the project implementation plan and back-out plan; work with the project manager to coordinate this plan key business areas.
o Focus on identification and tracking of dependencies between teams, across projects for larger programs.
• Proactively identify and remediate risks to projects due to IT resources, procedures, and processes and notify IT management of these risks and possible solutions.
Communication and Stakeholder Management
• Serve as a single point of contact for IT leaders regarding communications for assigned projects, including status reports and issue escalation as needed.
• Create a consultative partnership with IT project owner and key stakeholders in the management of project deliverables.
Domain Expertise
• Develop and demonstrate domain expertise both business and technical for assigned area of support.
Manage special requests
• Structure work efforts for special requests to the CTO team.
o Determine approach to support customer requests; including determining the appropriate teams to engage.
o Engage CTO and/or IT leaders in support of the effort/request
o Demonstrate independent decision making; operate with substantial latitude for unreviewed actions.
Hiring Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or other relevant field with a technical focus.
• 6 years of hands-on development and/or systems analysis experience is required.
• OR Master's degree of MBA and 4 years of hands-on development and/or systems analysis experience is required
• Experience must include managing projects or project portfolios in an IT organization.
• Solid experience with the software development process is required, including requirements gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management.
• In lieu of degree, 8 years of hands-on development and/or systems analysis experience is required.
