One of our top clients in Cary, NC has an opening for a Program Integration Management Lead . If interested, please send the most up-to-date copy of your resume to Regan at [email protected] .

Job Description:

As a Senior IT Program Manager, you lead complex, cross-team strategic technology initiatives end-to-end. You are an entrepreneurial leader able to gain stakeholder trust and adept at influencing others. You are able to secure resources needed for delivery, escalate issues and anticipate project specific risks to ensure timely and on-budget implementations. You're excellent at communicating to all levels and are comfortable explaining your teams analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing technical trade-offs or dependencies with application developers.

Summary of Responsibilities:

• Deep evidence of matrixed leadership across global teams.
• Leads multiple teams and parallel work-streams in delivery of quality software and technology solutions, working closely with technical teams to develop and track release milestones and schedules.
• Coordinates with partners to deliver value and realization of clear business benefits.
• Builds relationships with business and technology executives and user/customer base.
• Develops and manages project plans, work process investment plan, demand and project staging plans with business partners and shared services.
• Accountable for large projects or portfolio of projects upwards of $3 million.
• Manages teams of project managers, vendors, and technical leads in a highly matrixed organization.
• Identifies and coordinates heavy interdependencies to ensure timing and alignment of releases, hardware, and resources.
• Ensures communication, coordination of activities, and issue resolution amongst core team members, senior management and other stakeholders.
• Manages focused project recovery activities including quick situational analysis, needs assessment, and hands-on collaboration to bring in distressed projects and teams back on track.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years related work experience successfully managing large, complex projects
• PMP or familiarity with PMI frameworks
• Demonstrated risk management skills and experience
• Demonstrated dependency management skills and experience
• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills and experience
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills, understands what it takes to deliver software with exposure to large-scale systems
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical abilities.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience managing information management systems and shared service platforms
• Experience in investments, financial services or related industries
• Familiarity with shared service models
• Adept at leading distributed, global teams
• Agile/Lean experience
• Travel: * 5%

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.