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Senior Delivery Manager (Remote)

  • Location: City of Mediapolis, 50392
  • Salary: $73.45 - $73.45 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted 13 days ago

Terrific Long-Term Contract Opportunity with a FULL suite of benefits!

Come work for this award-winning retirement and global asset management leader, helping people and businesses navigate a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement, investment services and insurance.

Position: Senior Delivery Manager (Remote)
Location: Des Moines, IA 50392 - Remote
Term: 6 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
  • Define, orchestrate, and manage the holistic product life cycle, delivery cadence, release plan and sprint schedule.
  • Facilitate the identification, scheduling and assignment of project activities, tasks, and milestones.
  • Help teams identify and improve parts of the team's delivery system to produce results.
  • Work across teams to help improve and optimize workflow and value creation.
  • Use expertise to help define "what good looks like" and generate action to shape those behaviors.
  • Utilize Lean and DevOps principles and practices to create stable, safe, and high performing delivery systems.
  • Able to influence, identify and suggest solutions to continuously improve the practices and methods used to develop software.
  • Comply with a Code of Ethics which covers a number of obligations related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Is this a good fit? (Requirements):
Requirements:
  • Associate or bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Technology, Engineering or Math-related field.
  • 6+ years of Delivery Management experience or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience managing software/application development projects.
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, activities, and tasks under time constraints.
  • Ability to interface with executives and stakeholders regarding issues of project scope and status.
  • Advanced planning/organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills.
  • Basic leadership and presentations skills.
  • Able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality.
  • Some travel required, including overnight stays.
  • Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners.

Even better if you have:
  • 6+ years of Agile team experience in any well-known software environment.
  • Knowledge of insurance and financial services products.


About our client
Our client is a global financial company with 18,000 employees passionate about improving the wealth and well-being of people and businesses. In business for more than 140 years, it has helped more than 38 million customers plan, insure, invest, and retire, while working to support the communities where it does business, improve our planet, and build a diverse, inclusive workforce. Discover, grow, and thrive as part of a team that supports you

 

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Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

About Us

At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re consistently in the top 25 of all U.S. IT staffing firms and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average, earning us ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing awards year after year. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

MATRIX is and Equal Employment Opportunity employer including disability and veteran and provides reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals.  Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable. If you are a qualified individual you may request a reasonable accommodation under the American Disability Act (ADA). If you are a person with a disability needing assistance applying, or at any point in the hiring process, please email us at MATRIX_HR@MatrixRes.com. To ensure a quick response to your request, please use the words “Accommodation request” as the subject line of your email.

For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options.  Please see MatrixRes.com/Benefits for more information.

For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits would be offered in accordance with that particular client’s offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.