Project Manager, Enterprise System Integrations

Wilson Elser

Salary: $125k - $150k
Experience: 5+ yrs
Location: New York, New York, United States
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

Aderant
BigHand
SAFe
SCRUM
Enterprise Data Architecture

About the role

Wilson Elser is a leading defense litigation law firm with more than 1400 attorneys in 46 offices throughout the United States. Founded in 1978, we rank among the top 100 law firms identified by The American Lawyer and 36 in the National Law Journal’s survey of the nation’s largest law firms.

The Position

This position is a highly collaborative role that works closely with stakeholders, vendor partners, end-users, and functional/technical team members to deliver modern and optimized solutions to the Wilson Elser Finance and Revenue teams. Initiatives include managing the integrations of a new enterprise financial system and other third party and in-house developed products. It is essential that this role understands the dependencies, issues, and requirements necessary to make integrations with multiple systems successful. It is important that this project managers has experience coordinating with multiple teams and areas of technology and the business to get complicated schemas executed. The ideal candidate understands the role APIs and enterprise data architecture play in these types of initiatives and can hold teams accountable for meeting expectations and delivery deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage the successful implementation of various business and technology team requirements, processes, and technically refined business solutions.
Liaise between multiple third-party and internal technical teams and project managers while ensuring business requirements and priorities are being met, focused on integrating several new systems.
Ensure that a dedicated internal technical team can successfully execute projects while effectively communicating project health across all cross-functional teams.
Effectively facilitate the removal of all blockers impeding the velocity of the project lifecycle.
Spearhead project status reports, utilizing refined project management techniques aligned with our Enterprise PMO, that effectively keep the PMO and the Executive team informed.
Efficiently organize and ensure mandatory timelines are met while retaining the flexibility to adapt based on business needs and requirements.
Facilitate the training and end-user support activities on new systems and workflows.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of hands-on project management experience with:
- Enterprise-level financial system data conversions, integrations, and deployments is required.
- Experience with the Aderant and BigHand product suite, a big plus.
- Systems specific to the legal industry, a plus.
- Waterfall and Agile methodologies (including SAFe and SCRUM).
Effective communication skills within team members and executive leadership.
Managing change and driving a change mindset with business stakeholders.
Exceptional time management and organizational skills.
Understanding of enterprise-level financial and revenue team user journeys and workflows.
Ability to prioritize tasks, drive deadlines, and ensure team focus.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant major or equivalent work experience.

A variety of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to experience, education, licensure and/or certifications, geographic location, market demands, other business and organizational needs, and other factors permitted by law. Final salary wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances. This position is considered full-time and therefore qualifies for benefits including 401(k) retirement savings plan, medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

Salary Range:

$125,000—$150,000 USD

Why Should You Apply?

Benefits: Outstanding benefits package, including 401k match and generous PTO plan
Career Growth: Ample opportunities for professional development and advancement
Employee Perks: Access to corporate discount plans and other benefits

Wilson Elser welcomes submissions of candidates for our open positions exclusively from recruitment agencies with an active, signed fee agreement who have been granted access to a position through our dedicated Recruitment Agency Portal. We are unable to consider submissions from recruitment agencies without a current (dated as of 7/1/2024) agreement in place. We appreciate your understanding. For collaboration inquiries or to establish an agreement, please contact us at talentacquisition@wilsonelser.com.

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About Wilson Elser

National defense litigation services for corporations and insurance carriers.

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