Transformation Project Manager (Endur) - Hybrid

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client in Downtown, Houston, TX is seeking an experienced Transformation PM - Architecture & migration leadership (LPS System) for a hybrid role. Duties:

• Agree and deliver programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within company standards and controls framework
• Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments
• Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action
• Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes
• Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits
• Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders' decisions are a timely and effective
• Mobilise and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team
• Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes
• Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments
• Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints
• Assess programme risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams
• Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual
• Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered
  
  

Requirements

• Experience with program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50
• Experience with Agile & waterfall methodology
• Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital. leadership, communication and resilience
• Experience with stakeholder management and enabling value creation
  
  

What LPS actually does (business wise): Supports high value, high volume commercial activity, including:

• Deal and contract entry for lease based purchases
• Contract generation and maintenance
• Pricing and run ticket processing
• Division of interest (DOI) master data management
• Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting
• SOX critical controls around contract and payment data
  
  

LPS Is

• A large IBM mainframe application (z/OS)
• Written mainly in COBOL/TELON, with DB2 and VSAM
• ~5 million lines of code
• Integrated with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems
  
  

Costly To Run And Increasingly Constrained By

• Mainframe capacity limits
• Emulator and license costs
• Integration complexity
• Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access/spreadsheets)
  
  

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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