IT Delivery Lead II

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for an IT Delivery Lead II for their Remote location.

Responsibilities:

• Delivery Planning and Execution:
• Lead project and release delivery from pre-planning and initiation through implementation, warranty, and closure.
• Create and maintain integrated work plans, milestones, dependencies, release schedules, and critical-path activities.
• Convert approved scope into team-level assignments, estimates, resource plans, testing commitments, and delivery timelines.
• Drive follow-up across participating teams and ensure commitments are completed without repeated prompting.
• Coordinate implementation planning, command-center activity, production validation, warranty monitoring, and transition to sustainment.
• Understand high level E2E project problem statement, value and solution to clearly articulate to leadership and other inquiring parties.
• Governance and Deliverables:
• Ensure required ITPP artifacts are identified, developed, reviewed, approved, and stored in the project SharePoint site.
• Coordinate BRD, RRTM, CAD/CA, PIA, test strategy, business-readiness, implementation, approval, and closure evidence as applicable to the release.
• Maintain PSR, RAID, decision, action-item, milestone, and approval records that provide audit-ready traceability.
• Prepare and facilitate milestone-readiness reviews and confirm that required approvers, technical leads, test leads, and business approvers are identified.
• Financial and Resource Management:
• Coordinate ROMs, refined estimates, resource forecasts, ETC/EAC updates, Planview allocations, funding requests, funding returns, and year-over-year cost planning.
• Monitor actuals and forecast performance against approved funding and recommend corrective action when estimates, scope, or timing change.
• Work with resource managers and delivery teams to secure named resources and hours aligned to the approved work plan.
• Present cost, schedule, and sequencing options so business and IT leadership can make informed decisions.
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership:
• Coordinate BA, architecture, technical delivery, testing, operational readiness, finance, and vendor partners.
• Clarify delivery roles, accountable owners, escalation paths, UAT approvers, and release-specific leadership assignments.
• Facilitate working sessions that resolve scope, dependency, estimate, design, testing, implementation, and operating-model questions.
• Coordinate internal and external partners while maintaining clear ownership for client deliverables and decisions.
• Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management:
• Identify delivery risks, assumptions, issues, actions, and dependencies before they affect the critical path.
• Develop practical mitigation options, establish owners and due dates, and escalate items requiring leadership support.
• Monitor vendor readiness, upstream and downstream dependencies, competing priorities, business decisions, and external mandate dates.
• Use evidence and team commitments to distinguish confirmed delivery facts from proposals, assumptions, and unresolved decisions.
• Requirements, Architecture, and Testing Readiness:
• Partner with Business and business SMEs to ensure capabilities and requirements are complete, precise, approved, and traceable.
• Engage technical leads early to identify impacted assets, integrations, consumers, data flows, security needs, and solution dependencies.
• Coordinate with test-lead on testing approach, timelines, execution and defect tracking/resolution.
• Ensure changes in scope or solution are reflected in estimates, work plans, architecture documents, the PIA, test scope, and governance artifacts for Business approval.
• Stakeholder and Executive Communication:
• Provide concise status, financial, schedule, risk, decision, and implementation-readiness reporting to project, portfolio, and executive stakeholders.
• Prepare leadership-ready summaries that explain business impact, delivery options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended next steps.
• Lead or support recurring project meetings, portfolio updates, leadership touchpoints, working sessions, and post-production command centers.
• Maintain a common understanding of project scope, sequencing, ownership, dependencies, and expected outcomes.

Requirements:

• Takes ownership of outcomes and drives work to completion.
• Follows up proactively and does not wait for repeated direction.
• Uses sound judgment to determine when to resolve an issue within the team and when to escalate.
• Brings recommendations and options, not only problem statements.
• Holds owners accountable while maintaining constructive working relationships.
• Operate effectively when scope, ownership, or technical direction is still being clarified.
• Maintains urgency without sacrificing governance, quality, or member impact considerations.
• Communicates clearly with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and executives.
• Learning from delivery patterns and applying lessons across the Rx Portfolio.

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities