Manager IT

Job Description

Description

At Exelon, we've got a place for you! 

Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce. 

Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits. 

Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 150 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Plan and manage resources, finances, scope and services for the support of ComEd and PECO’s Customer Information Systems. Establish, maintain and enhance relationships with clients and project teams. Participate in developing and implementing strategy/policy. Coordinate with projects of high complexity, size and change management risk.

• Provide leadership for supporting multiple utility customer systems.
• Application Portfolio Management
• Life Cycle Management / System Architecture Maintenance
• Lead a team to deploy new technologies and/or identify the most appropriate technology choices to accomplish goals by utilizing Exelon’s standard governance process as outlined in the Management Model. Ensure appropriate implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments take place.
• Build and maintain knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities and assists in development of analysis of their use for business operations.
• Identify and provide Business and IT data on IT trends and issues. Participate in IT architecture review and standards setting. Assist in the development of white papers, conducting presentations as needed to explain why a technology is being recommended by IT.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners.
• Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or function
• Evaluate performance and provide coaching for IT personnel. Participate in career development and succession planning processes. Promote diversity and foster teamwork, collaboration, and a learning organization. Provide input on development and retention processes for IT employees. 
• Prepare and manage budget for area of responsibility. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline and typically 8 to 10 years experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience leading and managing technical support personnel.
• Strong judgment and excellent analytical ability.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work effectively with all levels of IT and business management and with vendors.
• Experience managing budgets for functional area of responsibility.
• Experience leading and managing IT projects or sub-teams and knowledge of IT project management.

• Graduate Degree
• PMP certification

• Total Staff Managed: 5 to 20
• Utilize understanding of customer's business needs to determine requirements and help set direction.
• Determine and helps others learn appropriate theories, practices and principles that relate to their skill set portfolio and related sciences and disciplines.
• Make judicious decisions in familiar and new situations and contributes to strategic decisions.
• Represent business client’s perspective with IT team
• Dimensions: Span of control (generally 10), level of budget control, technical/business complexity, risk, criticality of assignment to business
• Budget Management specific to area of accountability.
• Operate independently with little or no supervision.