Vantage-One/wmA

Job description

Job Description: Essential Job Functions: Estimation and Planning: Drive accurate project estimations, including effort, timeline, and resource planning, ensuring realistic project commitments and on-time delivery. Customer Handling: Act as the primary point of contact for clients, addressing their queries, and ensuring high customer satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle. Technical Solutioning: Lead the design and implementation of robust technical solutions that meet customer requirements and align with business objectives. End-to-End Project Management: Oversee the entire project lifecycle, including scope management, risk mitigation, resource allocation, and change management, ensuring adherence to organizational and client expectations. Team Support: Provide leadership and technical guidance to a team of software engineers, including code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on support to resolve complex technical issues. Technical Expertise: Hands-on Experience with Micro Focus tools and COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 for z/OS, Assembler, PL/I, Rexx, flat/sequential files, GDGs, and VSAM. Familiarity with software development methodologies and best practices. Experience: Minimum 12+ years of industry experience, including at least 5+ years in a similar leadership role within software engineering. US Insurance Domain Expertise: Familiarity with US Insurance Life and Annuity policy administration platform. Project Ownership and Collaboration: Take complete ownership of projects, managing them from initiation to closure, including planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management and QA, to define project requirements and ensure successful software project delivery. Mentorship and Growth: Foster the professional development of team members through regular feedback, coaching, and career development planning. Strategic Contributions: Contribute to the organization's software engineering strategy by participating in technology assessments, innovation discussions, and process improvements. Task Management: Oversee project tasks and assignments, assisting with prioritization and work planning to meet project milestones and deliverables. Project Oversight: Monitor project timelines, resource allocation, and budgets to ensure efficient execution and delivery. Risk Management: Identify potential project risks early, propose mitigation strategies, and proactively resolve issues as they arise. Team Culture: Promote a collaborative and innovative team culture, encouraging continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Basic Qualifications: Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Debugging Skills: Strong programming, debugging, and problem-solving skills. Leadership Experience: Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead teams in a technical capacity. Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other project management frameworks. Domain Knowledge: Experience in the US Insurance domain, specifically in Life and Annuity products. Organizational Skills: Strong time management, organizational, and multitasking abilities. Growth Mindset: Openness to learning and expanding leadership capabilities. Additional Preferred Qualifications: Product Knowledge: Exposure to Vantage and wmA products is a significant advantage. Conversion and Migration: Experience driving end-to-end conversion and migration projects will be highly beneficial. Advanced Education: A master’s degree in a related field is a plus. Certifications: Relevant certifications such as PMP, Scrum Master, or technical certifications are highly desirable. Continuous Learning: Training in leadership, project management, or technical skills is an advantage. At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Recruitment fraud is a scheme in which fictitious job opportunities are offered to job seekers typically through online services, such as false websites, or through unsolicited emails claiming to be from the company. These emails may request recipients to provide personal information or to make payments as part of their illegitimate recruiting process. DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf. More information on employment scams is available here .