Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master (Finance)
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Senior IT Project Manager position will be focused on leading the successful planning, execution and delivery of projects, supporting multiple teams in Global Actuarial IT systems, requiring strong leadership skills to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the desired quality.
As Senior Project Manager, this individual will be responsible for leading and overseeing multiple projects, ensuring successful delivery within budget and timeline, facilitating daily standup meetings, managing risks, and collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize and deliver high-value increments throughout the project lifecycle, while actively promoting continuous improvement and adapting to changing requirements within the team and organization; often requiring experience with Agile frameworks like Scrum and strong communication skills to guide teams towards optimal performance.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership: Assemble and manage cross-functional project teams, assigning tasks, providing guidance, and motivating members to achieve project milestones.
- Project Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, manage project scope, prioritize backlog items, and track progress against key metrics to ensure timely delivery.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and technical leads to gather requirements, manage expectations. Communicate project status updates effectively to senior management, business owners, and technical teams, managing expectations and addressing concerns.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify potential project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and proactively address issues to minimize impact on project success throughout the project lifecycle.
- Metrics and Reporting: Monitor project performance, generate monthly management reports, including status updates, key metrics and performance insights.
- Impediment Removal: Actively identify and resolve roadblocks that hinder team progress, escalating issues to relevant parties when necessary.
- Release management: perform production deployment approvals, create Service Now tickets for deployments, represent Actuarial systems in Change Approval Board meetings, serve as data steward for Change Management Database, handle SSL certifications.
- Additional functions: Work with technical and business team leads on completion of Building Permits, serve as an administrator for Actuarial Systems in JIRA and Clarity.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/ ABOUT US Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally. At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.