IT Project Manager at CURE Auto Insurance in Princeton, NJ

IT Senior Project Manager

CURE Auto Insurance is a leading direct writer of auto insurance in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. CURE offers a great working environment, competitive salary, and comprehensive benefits package which includes health and dental coverage, life and disability insurance, 401k with generous company match, and much more!

The IT Technical Project Manager will be primarily responsible for leading one or more, complex, enterprise-wide projects with expertise in analysis, scope finalization, estimation, technical design, implementation and manage & deliver all phases of the project.

Responsibilities:

• Establishes and maintains a strong working relationship with IT senior leadership and Departmental managers throughout business areas.

• Responsible for Project Planning, estimation, negotiation, change management and delivery of the project.

• Responsible for clearly identifying the risks and issues and working with senior leaders in IT to mitigate them.

• Work directly with various levels of business users (executive, managers, and users) to document requirements, create visual diagrams/Prototype, review specifications, obtain approval, support UAT and post-production roll-out.

• Develop business and technical requirement documents as well as technical specifications.

• Supporting system design, SQL reports, quality assurance and user acceptance testing.

• Manages change control effectively, while considering business priorities, schedule & budget availability.

• Compiling detailed Metrics and status reports for senior leadership for decision making.

• Working with Offshore developers and external vendors to ensure specifications are understood, followed, and implemented properly.

• Participate in establishing and improving best practices, templates, policies, tools to expand and mature the capabilities of the organization.

• Tracking issues through JIRA and maintaining regular updates to sprint progress.

• Other day to day activities required for the IT department.

Professional Qualifications:

• 5+ years of IT Technical project management experience, planning, tracking and managing projects that successfully met timelines and budgets.

• Working experience with Agile/Scrum SDLC methodology.

• Experience in Vendor management roles with expert skills in requirements gathering with the ability to draw out requirements using a variety of methods to uncover needs.

• Ability to communicate technically complex IT concepts to internal and external business clients.

• Experience in P&C business implementing new applications and major enhancements. These include underwriting, claims systems is a plus.

• Experience in data integration and data quality projects is a plus.

• Ability to work with technical teams (developers, architects, QA, infrastructure), business partners and software vendors to document and implement system modifications on time and within budget.

• Excellent understanding of how technology impacts the business and evaluate new packages and softwares for the business needs.

• Hands on Development experience in the past is a plus.

• Experience working in cloud environment AWS, GCP or Azure is a plus.

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Understanding one or more technologies like React, Java, .net, Rest Api, XML and/or JSON languages.

• Strong SQL skills to query SQL databases is a must have.

• Managed Analytics and data related projects is a strong plus. P&C Insurance Policy Administration or claims System experience (Duck Creek, Guidewire, etc.) is a plus but not mandatory.

• Experience in Release management and managed automated deployments using any one of the CI/CD tools like Teamcity, Jenkins etc. is a plus but not required.

• Networking concepts as it relates to system design and implementation.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent college degree with relevant experience.

• PMP certification is a plus.

Physical Actions/Environment: Required job duties consist of prompt and regular attendance, ability to frequently move about the office to coordinate work with others; standing, sitting and typing for extended periods; and lifting and/or carrying up to 5 lbs. Ability to frequently communicate with others in-person, on the phone/virtually, and in writing. Ability to read, understand, process and evaluate large amounts of technical information and make related, informed decisions.

Starting Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 annually based on experience

Schedule: We offer flexible work hours between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, with options like 8–4, 8:30–4:30, or 9–5. We do our best to support individual preferences, though schedules may be adjusted as needed to ensure strong coverage and teamwork.

We also offer a hybrid schedule: team members work onsite four days a week and can work remotely one day a week.

Location: Southfield, MI or Princeton, NJ

We recruit, hire, employ, train and promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. We respect the dignity and worth of each individual and are committed to an employment environment that is free from all forms of employment discrimination.

CURE Auto Insurance provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Disclaimer: This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This job description may be subject to change at any time.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.