Transformation IT Project Manager - Architecture and Migration

Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a contract Transformation IT Project Manager - Architecture and Migration .  This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 6-month duration with an estimated start date of July 1st.   Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position. 

The Lease Purchase System (LPS) is a core legacy trading system used primarily in US Products/Crude contexts to manage lease-based purchases and related financial processing.  The LPS is the system of record for managing Shell's US lease purchases, handling commercial, contractual and financial aspects of leased supply.   What LPS actually does (business‑wise)

• LPS 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 licence costs
• Integration complexity
• Difficulty evolving logic (some logic has already "escaped" into Access / spreadsheets)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Agree and deliver programs, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within Shell's 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 behaviour changes and maximize benefits.
• Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
• Mobilize 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 program 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.

Mandatory skills:

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

Optional skills:

• Business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling

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