Program Director

Program Director

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Program Director supporting our State & Local client. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an experienced leader with a strong track record of delivering results with high client satisfaction, you will join our team in partnership with New York State of Health (NYSoH) to provide comprehensive health coverage to more than 7.3 million New Yorkers through its Health Benefit Exchange (HBE)   

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT   

• You’ll join our talented Program Executive Team managing functional areas that provide support to deliver upgrades and customer enhancements. The platform is a large-scale Java web services environment. It is a three-tiered application (web, application, and database server) with multiple levels of security between each tier.  
• You’ll directly manage development, testing and operational areas reporting into the Account Executive / Sr. Program Director.
• You’ll represent the Sr. Program Director when they are unavailable and interface directly with GDIT leadership and customer as needed. 
• We are looking for strong leader with a wide breadth of technology knowledge aligned to the program technologies. In addition to technology expertise, we are seeking experience in health insurance, a track record of leading large development, testing the operational areas within IT. Experience managing external clients is a must. The role will drive change as requested from the customer for new functionality being a key focal point for client communications. The role will also have a strong focus on continuous improvement working closely with internal and external stakeholders.  Experience working within a large highly matrixed organizations is a must.   

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

This position requires a unique combination of skills including leadership and management, IT project management, technical thought leadership and innovation, process maturity, continual service improvement, senior management communications, and systems integration.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field

Required Experience:

Program Management

• Ten (10) years of related experience 
• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience managing a staff of over fifty (50) in a complex IT environment. 
• Five (5) years’ or more experience simultaneously managing large scale concurrent projects and effectively responding to unanticipated business priorities. 
• Management of Software development organizations / programs and  budgets.
• Minimum of three (3) years’ experience implementing quality improvement and customer satisfaction monitoring programs.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with customer’s senior management: and demonstrated strong analytical, organizational and problem solving abilities.
• 3 years of Medicaid or Health exchange experience

Technical

• Minimum of Seven (7) years in design, development, implementation, operations, maintenance, and modifications of a large MMIS or insurance application.
• Experience with development programs with significant structured software development scope.
• Experience with the complete architecture and interfaces related to the current NYSoH program.
• Demonstrated comprehensive experience managing the planning, developing, testing, and implementing of software application changes.
• Demonstrated comprehensive experience using the proposed software development life-cycle methodologies and COTS products.
• Experience with JAVA, Java script, HTML, DB2, MuleSoft, Angular, IBM Rationale, Splunk, Websphere, Alfresco, OpenText, Linux.
• Track record of managing large software development programs providing strategic and operational direction with a strong sense of urgency to drive issues to closure. 

Other

• Strong influencing skills to include negotiation, problem solving, and conflict resolution.
• Solid analytical skills and understanding of processes, technology and operational concepts.
• An unquestionable work ethic with the ability to accomplish established goals with minimal supervision.
• A high degree of attention to detail.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and shift with changing priorities and projects.
• Passionate about client success. 
• A natural problem-solver who thrives in a collaborative environment, thinks outside of the box, communicates clearly, and is fascinated by creating solutions to challenges that have yet to be identified.

Desired Experience/Skills:

• Master’s Degree in an IT related field
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Agile Certified Scrum Master (SCM)