Technical Program Director

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The Ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

Preferred Location: Norfolk, VA.

The Technical Program Director is responsible for providing leadership for multiple large/strategic enterprise-wide programs made up of multiple projects.

How you will make an impact:

• .Manages projects of at least $20M+ in size or equal complexity.

• Typically reports to an executive.

• Provides strategic planning analysis to ELT concerning staffing needs on short to long term basis based on program projections.

• Provides strategic direction for developing enterprise project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risk, contingency plan and allocation of resources.

• Provides expert knowledge of project management methodology approaches, techniques and tools to senior management.

• Directs system analysts, software designers and programmers to determine best methods to achieve project objectives.

• Coaches and mentors project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology; determines project scope.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 15 years of enterprise project management experience in broad-based information systems managing increasing project size and complexity that are transformational in nature for the organization, full life-cycle application development and/or building enterprise applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Requires experience in effective team environment, building strong relationships, negotiation, solving problems and issues, resolving conflicts, managing resources in a matrix environment, communicating and influencing effectively at all levels of an organization required and/or data warehouse planning and development.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

• Project management certification (PMP) strongly preferred.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring project team members strongly preferred.

• Experience using portfolio management application and Rational tools strongly preferred.

• Healthcare Domain experience preferred.