Senior Manager – IT Projects – Core API integrations

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage complex large scale & enterprise level projects understanding the interdependencies of technology, operations & business needs
• Coordinate with IT delivery teams in scope discussions, finalization, development tracking, testing & implementation
• Knowledge of Life Insurance policy administration, customer servicing, new business functions
• Strategize system/process improvements, plan and execute projects to automate/optimize processes to reduce ticket inflow and improve stability of application helping EODB
• Awareness of contemporary technologies used by Insurance and BFSI Industry and evaluate them for use
• Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders
• Define the Statement of Work, Business case with commercial and project benefit and manage commercial approvals and onboarding of partners
• Ability to manage internal & external stakeholders from Project management, Vendor Management aspects
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
• Extensive understanding of various IT technologies, SDLC, IT Development & Infrastructure
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
• Work well within the budget to manage resources and deliveries
• Manage project demand and delivery working with multiple Architecture, Solution and development leaders

Desired Candidate Profile

• Excellent experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
• Strong Life Insurance Tecno-Functional Knowledge
• Hands on experience on legacy and web application development/support.
• MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Experience drafting and submitting Business case and tracking benefits
• Experience of working on Life Insurance products & industry applications like LifeAsia or Ingenium

• Technical Knowledge of Web, Mobility, CRM, e-Commerce, cloud and emerging technologies
• Knowledge of new technologies like RPA, AI, etc would be desired
• Experience in PL/SQL, Java, .Net technologies mandatory. Ability to analyze code & execute queries

Knowledge or experience of AS400, Cobol/400 required