IT Project Manager (Release Mgt)

Requirements

• This position is both inward and outward facing and requires a candidate to be detail-oriented and comfortable working with multiple external clients and internal stakeholders
• This requires the ability to convey timely, consistent, and meaningful information and to appropriately adjusts communication style and method based on audience
• Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: Six (6)+ years of IT Project Management Experience with at least 3 years of Release Management experience
• Experience building out schedules for quarterly release implementations, track risks in regard to the release, have the ability understand the changes to systems that are being impacted, etc..
• Experience leading projects in a cross-functional, agile, technical systems release is required
• Healthcare Claims, Enrollment Benefit related releases are considered a big plus
• Strong Communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to successfully lead in a matrixed agile focused environment

Responsibilities

• Seeking an IT Project Manager to support our client's Release Management Team
• The selected candidate will support a highly matrixed agile organization to support quarterly and monthly releases
• This role involves effective use of listening skills, ensures that information is understood by the intended audience, takes detailed notes, and habitually sends out meeting minutes
• Success in this role would mean managing releases by collaborating with a multitude of teams and reaching consensus in the creation of the deployment schedules, meeting all internal and external milestones, and understanding the interdependency between implementation tasks
• This position is (1) contract to permanent, (2) mostly remote but monthly meetings will occur in Wash DC and/or Reston VA office (3) requires three (3) Saturday per year for releases and requires to be working on New Years Day for a benefit related release

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