Position Title: IS Program Manager

Type: W2, Contract, FT

Pay: 65-75+/hr

Location: HYBRID ROLE in Deerfield, IL

**Must be onsite at least 3x per week.

Summary

We are seeking an IS Program Manager to join the team of our client in the Deerfield, IL area. This position will be a hybrid role and will require you to be onsite at least 3x per week.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in project management, Jira, MS Excel, and agile. It's a bonus if you have technical skills like working with Linux, Infrastructure, and Tableau.

Responsibilities

• Successfully defines and delivers customer business value or emerging technology work according to the product lifecycle
• Lead the coordination of delivery from planning through to execution across multiple product areas
• Create roadmaps and schedules, and communicates on a regular cadence with key stakeholders
• Manage dependencies and risk
• Manage the communications across the teams and to ensure that information is flowing up and down at the appropriate time
• Monitor for impediments that arise
• Plan and oversee product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company's long term objectives.
• Orchestrate workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model.
• Partner with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.
• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
• Organizes and enables collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, with internal and external partners, executes on architecture & product driven initiatives.
• Drives or assists in communications on strategic initiatives to help drive consensus, achieve clarity and solve business problems. Provide oversight & process guidance for activities.
• Facilitate and drive decisions from key stakeholders around financials, scope, risks and dependencies.
• Partner with product leads and platform leads to develop the business case and ensure alignment on vision and strategy
• Provides leadership and guidance’s to teams/business units where there is no clear organizational ownership yet defined or where products/technology is not yet institutionalized or adopted.
• Drives or assists research and/or brainstorming sessions; helps promote a culture of innovation within the department. Translates ideas and concepts into an executable project.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Agile experience
• 4+ years' experience in Project Management
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Advance Microsoft Office Skills
• Enhanced Jira skills

Nice to have

• 3+ years working with Linux based servers, patches, upgrades and shell scripting
• Tableau Developer
• 5+ years of infrastructure/middleware exp, and 2+ years in Layer 7 API Gateway

Why should you choose Epitec?

We started Epitec with a single focus, “Placing People First.” Knowing every good endeavor begins with listening and understanding, we’ve set about challenging every part of the employment process. Bringing the proper connections together for the perfect fit.

How is Epitec different?

Epitec gets to know our prospective employees, using these insights to locate the perfect placement for you. We are there, every step of the way. Providing a best-in-class compensation package combined with the opportunity to grow financially and personally through your work.

What is the result?

Epitec represents the world’s top companies and works to fill their open jobs with the world’s best talent. That’s led to Epitec servicing an impressive list of Fortune 100 companies. We've also won many awards, including one of Crain’s Detroit Business “Cool Places to Work,” and 101 Best & Brightest – local, national and elite winner. And that’s just the beginning, as we work to innovate the way the world thinks about employment.