Unidata Delivery Lead

CGI has an immediate need for a Unidata Delivery Lead in Eden Prairie, MN. If you have been working in the healthcare industry, this is the chance to further advance your career.

Your future duties and responsibilities:
10 or more years of professional IT work experience, with 5 or more years as a Delivery Lead / PM.

• Technical hands on experience with Unidata technology

• Experience in managing Unidata technologies projects

• Experience in managing team size of 40 to 50 resources

• Experience with Onsite and Offshore model

• Experience with healthcare is desired

• Ability to work under minimal supervision and direction

• Experience getting results under short timelines.

• Good understanding of the SDLC lifecycle

• Experience with both start up and fortune 500 companies is a plus

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Using established PM practices, delivers projects on time and within budget adhering to high quality standards and meeting customer expectations

• Manages projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

• Identifies and tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers

• Partners with senior management to identify and prioritize opportunities to achieve the goals of the enterprise

• Manages to schedule and coordinates resources to ensure alignment of project deliverables

• Reports and, as necessary, escalates issues and risks associated with solution delivery

Qualifications:

• Technical hands on experience with Unidata technology

• Experience in managing Unidata technologies projects

• Experience in managing team size of 40 to 50 resources

• Experience with Onsite and Offshore model

• Demonstrated experience with PMBOK based project management control processes & techniques (risk, change, schedule, cost, & quality management)

• Ideally, 1-5 years of Agile experience. Must understand basic concepts of how scrum teams work and how Product Increment (PI) planning occurs so that he/she can support quarterly planning activities by release trains.

• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with the ability to execute with limited information and ambiguity.

• Extensive knowledge of schedule management and be able to discern relevant dependencies.

• Strong financial acumen, proven ability to connect the linkages of the project results to the financial and business benefits.

• Strong technical acumen with the ability to translate business needs into technical language and vice versa.

• Strong communicator (ability to communicate at all levels), skilled at stakeholder management (setting and managing expectations) and ability to communicate with all levels of the organization.

• Adept at negotiating; able to resolve conflict and adapt to different approaches using a variety of tactics

• Ability to deal with politics

• Ability to facilitate large groups (in person or over the phone)

• Ability to navigate a highly-matrixed organization effectively.

• Influencing skills (sound business and technical acumen as well as skilled at achieving buy-in for delivery strategies)

• Ability to be highly effective in a rapidly-changing business and technology environment

• Solid working knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel required

• Working knowledge of Clarity and Rally desired

• Experience with both start up and fortune 500 companies is a plus

What you can expect from us:
At CGI, we’re a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company – one that has grown to 65,000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976, CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources, expertise, stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients – and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at www.cgi.com.

This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time, permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans.

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

No unsolicited agency referrals please.

All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary depending upon specific assignment, or upon any US government security clearance if required. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender Identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, or other status protected by law. CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.

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