Sr Functional Program Manager

Title: Sr Functional Program Manager (14983) Location: Based in New York City or Boston (Remote Possible) Type: 1-Year Contract Rate: $70 per hour Education: Bachelor’s degree POSITION OVERVIEW This role is responsible for the overall technical and functional program management of all major initiatives undertaken by Enterprise Data Management & Salesforce.

In addition to managing the interdependencies between various projects and external teams needed to deliver our business goals, this role will also require direct Technical/Functional Program management of some of the larger initiatives which may span multiple teams, stakeholders, and end users. This role will also require performing business analysis, engaging with multiple business functions, and helping drive functional requirements for existing initiatives as well as proposing new initiatives that will provide significant business value.

Business Functions covered by this Role Enterprise Data Management team is responsible for delivering data for Enterprise needs across all business functions. This includes collaborating with both IT functional leadership and business leadership to understand data needs, onboarding data to EDH (Enterprise Data Hub), and delivering high quality data.

Enterprise Data portfolio crosses all business units which includes Finance (Accounting and Actuaries), Investments (Operations and Accounting), Institutional, Retail/Individual Markets, Risk, Legal & Compliance, and other business functions. This role will involve stakeholder engagement with functions listed. Salesforce CRM application at GA is system of engagement for Wholesalers to steer sales, reporting, marketing for Individual business.

This role will also be accountable for program oversight Salesforce projects in a similar capacity as Data. This role will include but will not be limited to the following responsibilities: Overall Program and Governance management Daily and monthly governance of projects, status updates, reflecting correct status, highlighting, and managing project risks, etc.

Ensuring project timelines on track Providing support to data leads so development team is focused on engineering tasks Coordinating with IT program leads and business program leads

• Resource Allocations Managing resource utilization and capacity management Work with leads to manage resource allocations across various projects Chargeback allocations to business units Help leads with resource hiring, onboarding, and keeping resource allocations updated Technical Program Management Keep various program status updated Coordinate and partner with internal leads and external leads to manage projects Participate and work with peers to provide project status, planning, prioritization, etc. Coordinate requirements, delivery schedules, milestone management, etc. Help leads to offload project management tasks including progress, creating required dashboards, organize and efficiently manage projects Help Operations and BAU team with planning and scheduling of jobs
• Business Program Management Be the initial point of engagement for new projects and manage project lifecycle from initiation to project closure Manage project pipeline, coordinate with leads to identify current capacity and new resource capacity to take on new work Coordinate detailed requirements gathering Help coordinate data requirements gathering and onboarding of data across various initiatives e.g., location of data to be onboarded to EDH, required history, etc. Coordinate the Data adoption from Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) Requirements: Experience in Insurance (Annuity, Life, Re-insurance) or Financial Industry nice to have
• Extensive experience in Data Domain and related technologies
• Hands on SQL skills and ability to Query data
• Familiarity with Relational Databases (Redshift, SQL Server, Oracle, …)
• Familiarity with Cloud data technologies (AWS, Big Data, Cloudera Hadoop Platform) and related architecture
• Familiarity and understanding of ETL technologies, Data Quality Management, data transformation, CRM/Sales data, Salesforce, and Data Governance
• Ability to analyze large data sets