Project Management Center of Excellence PM COE Standards Lead

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Description

Come join our team in this exciting new role! Humana's IT organization is undergoing a multi-year transformation journey to develop a cloud-based and platform-centric technology ecosystem. Critical to this transformation is our transition to agile ways of working. As a Standards Lead in the IT Project Management Center of Excellence, you will work cross-functionally across IT to optimize the practices of project and program management, impacting the delivery of enterprise-wide technology initiatives. In this exciting new role you will work with IT- wide project management offices developing standards and best practices and provide support to individual project managers across the IT organization.

Responsibilities

The Project Management Center of Excellence (PM COE) Standards Lead is in Humana's Information Technology (IT) organization, and is responsible for working across IT PMOs to define the standards and best practices that merge traditional PM techniques with agile ways of working to enable effective execution of technology initiatives. The right candidate will demonstrate expert level understanding of program/project management practices, standards and the resources and tools needed to support a large IT PM community. The role incumbent will be a thought leader and strategic advisor, with direct experience identifying, documenting and implementing program, project and agile standards.

Duties include:


Develop a continuum of practices, tools, and standards that may be applied to technology initiatives according to an efforts size and complexity and a work team's development methodology
Develop and manage standards and best practice libraries and repositories ensuring useful information can be easily managed, updated and accessed by the project management community
Act as a consultant to multiple project management offices, to ensure the adoption of best practice, standards and tools
Measure and report on the adoption of best practices and the impact of their usage
Assemble and lead forums for project and program management practitioners across IT to provide training on best practices and standards and continuously gather feedback to improve current practices, standards and tools
Work with tool owners to ensure workflows, automations and validations support standards and best practice implementation and adoption


Required Qualifications


Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology or a related field
8 or more years of project, program management, or PMO leadership experience in IT
Agile / Scaled Agile Certification
Deep knowledge of project and program management (PPM) and agile toolsets
Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing project management standards and best practices
Direct experience with agile software development methodologies as a leader, coach, or in standards development
Specialized knowledge of Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), PMBOK, agile methodologies, SAFe framework
Demonstrated experience in SharePoint site development


Preferred Qualifications


Master's Degree in Business Administration
PMP Certification


Additional Information

Associates are required to be fully COVID vaccinated, including booster, or undergo weekly COVID testing and wear a face covering while at work. The weekly testing will need to be done through an approved Humana vendor, and unvaccinated associates should follow all social distancing and masking protocols if they are required to come into a Humana facility or work outside of their homes.

If progressed to offer, candidates will be required to:


Provide proof of full vaccination, including booster OR
Provide proof of applicable exemption including any required supporting documentation


Medical, religious, and state exemptions will be available.

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Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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