Tech Program Director – IT Infrastructure – PS30588

Company: Anthem, Inc.
Location: Richmond, VA 23223

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Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., it’s a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which we’re creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.
This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America’s leading health benefits companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.

Provides leadership for multiple large/strategic enterprise wide programs made up of multiple projects. Manages projects of at least $20M+ in size or equal complexity. Typically reports to an executive.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
  • Plans and manages projects in Infrastructure Planning org., which aligns infrastructure capacity with Anthem’s ever—evolving business needs, through demand and financial planning, maximizing infrastructure utilization, and continuous improvement.
  • Provides executive level communications including project progress, and strategic analysis of project data.
  • Provides strategic planning analysis (staffing, tools, approaches) based on program projections.
  • Develops enterprise project plans specifying goals, strategy, scope, staffing, scheduling, identification of risk, contingency plan and allocation of resources.
  • Develops project artifacts to support strategic and actionable analysis of data.
  • Provides expert knowledge of project management methodology approaches, techniques and tools to senior management.
  • Directs system analysts, software designers and programmers to determine best methods to achieve project objectives.
  • Coaches and mentors project team members (internal and external) in a matrix environment.
  • Mentors other project managers around project management methodology

Requires BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with IT focus degree; 15 years of enterprise project management experience in broad-based information systems, full life-cycle application development and/or IT Infrastructure planning and development; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. Demonstrated experience of managing increasing project size and complexity that are transformational in nature for the organization. Demonstrated application of and proven success of project management methodology, management tools, analysis and research tools, documentation tools, and reporting tools required. Experience in coaching and mentoring project team members preferred. Experience in creating an effective team environment, building strong relationships, negotiation, solving problems and issues, resolving conflicts, managing resources in a matrix environment, communicating and influencing effectively at all levels of an organization required. Demonstrated application of project management methodology required. Requires an understanding of the overall organization. Experience using portfolio management application and Rational tools preferred. Project management certification (PMP) preferred.

Experience with IT infrastructure (compute, network, storage) utilization projects is an asset.
Experience with data analytics to identify trends and/or to perform root cause analysis is an asset.

Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of America’s Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and is a 2018 DiversityInc magazine Top 50 Company for Diversity. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.

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