The IT Team Manager is responsible for the development, enhancement, support and documentation of PL Applications and all related processes in support of MA Personal Lines business areas.
Requirements
- PLIS (Mainframe/IMS/DC with MFS/COBOL UI / IMS Database)
- COGEN (Mainframe/Gupta SQL UI/CICS COBOLUI/DB2)
- Arbella Connect (J2EE/JSP UI/ Agency Portal/ Insbridge/ Pega PRPC/ Oracle DB on Linux)
- Minimum 8 years’ experience as an Information Technology professional with exposure to any or several of the following: Mainframe Technologies (COBOL/IMS/DB2), Portal and Web Applications/Technologies, Distributed systems (HTML/JavaScript/Java/XML/Spring Boot/ETL/SQL/Cloud hosting), DevOps, Business/Systems Analysis, Quality Assurance.
- Working understanding of System Development Life Cycle and QA
- Technical acumen and the ability to quickly ramp up to an understanding of technologies and tools required to support business portfolios.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with IT Management and respective Business leaders, is responsible for the development and delivery of enhancements and defect resolutions in support of their business portfolios.
- Operational management of an IT team of employees consisting of Developers and Business Analysts.
- Sets short term goals and objectives for their area of responsibility, and assigns tasks to individuals with clear expectations for delivery
- Plans, organizes and controls the work for their team, ensuring they are aligned with priorities and expectations set with their business partners.
- Manage a single project of moderate scope and complexity, a portion of a large project, or multiple smaller software releases simultaneously.
- Directly manages employees and contributes to IT Talent Strategy including interviews/recruiting, performance management, coaching & development
Other
- 5+ years of experience in a lead or supervisory role preferred, having participated in delivery of system development projects via SDLC.
- Strong understanding of project management principles and a working knowledge of Agile Methodologies including Scrum is a plus.
- Strong relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.
- High degree of self-motivation and organization, able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to facilitate and lead meetings with IT and business teams.
