Summary
 

CGS culture is steeped in how we impact lives within our community and organization. Our culture is invested in six core values: Integrity, Making a Difference, Passion for Excellence, Always Improving, Customer Focused and Taking Risks.

CGS IT is a collaborative, face-paced environment with focus on quality. CGS IT department (GSIT) is responsible for production support, development & research, systems access, security, and project management office (PMO) activities. The PMO is responsible for providing resources to support and implement the software development life cycle (SDLC) for internal & external customer requests (i.e., CMS, BCBS, CGS). These processes are aligned with ISO, CMMI-DEV, PMI, and IIBA best practices.

Responsibilities include tasks supporting initiation, planning design, coding, testing, implementation, and closure activities. Specific tasks range from project oversight, business cases, requirements elicitation, testing, work instruction creation and oversight to support a framework aligned with agile & waterfall project methodologies.

Description
 

What you’ll do

Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts. Responsible for moderate number of work efforts simultaneously that vary from a smaller to a moderate scale, with smaller number of hours to moderate number of hours, and with moderate system impacts and moderate scope and complexity. Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets ISSM expectations. Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis. Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues. Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort. Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.

• Develops and monitors project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from scope to post implementation. Ensures project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.

• Identifies items that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort. Monitors resource requirements based on project specifications. Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.

• Responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications. Facilitates effective communications between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts. This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.

• Identifies the impact of issues arising from the work efforts and/or resource requirements. Manages the project issues throughout the project life cycle. Communicates the implications of changes to the project scope with senior management and other appropriate parties.

• Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.

Work Environment:

• Fast paced, dynamic environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer and where one must be flexible to changing priorities.

To Qualify for This Position You’ll Need:

Required Education:

• Bachelor's Degree OR

• 4 years of job-related work experience OR