About Camelot Illinois

Camelot Illinois operates the Illinois Lottery, a modern enterprise that truly benefits the people of Illinois. We place consumers and social responsibility at our core, providing funding for schools, capital projects, and special causes. We are a progressive organization that is reinforcing the lottery’s rightful position as a force for good alongside the State of Illinois.

About the Team:

The Technology team utilizes the latest technological trends to effectively build and manage solutions in an informal, open, and collaborative environment.

Position Overview:

Within Camelot Illinois, the Project Manager will be responsible for working as part of a technical management function, delivering practical, business-focused, and technology-based solutions to complex challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of business cases in conjunction with stakeholders and finance in order to gain financial approvals prior to the mobilization of project teams.
• Overseeing the whole project delivery, ensuring exceptional customer service and high quality technical solutions.
• Leading a matrix team made up of marketing, finance, digital, retail sales, business analysts, technical architects and software focused delivery leads – each with responsibilities for major workstreams.
• Coordinating 3rd parties and interdependencies – including technical providers, design agencies and other vendors.
• Aligning analysis, development, systems integration, test and infrastructure teams, and several 3rd party vendors, to deliver the project with maximum efficiency.
• Budget management, tracking and board level reporting responsibilities for the entire project.
• Work with a number of internal colleagues and external stakeholders in order to deliver objectives.
• Build productive relationships with 3rd party subcontractors and stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate appropriately up to an Executive level and effective at influencing internal and external stakeholders.
• Filter noise in order to get to the issue, and to ensure that other more senior stakeholders understand the important issues, risks and decisions that they need to make.

Requirements

Required:

• 5 plus years of experience in project management - involving both business and technical change.
• Strong technical project management experience - familiar with Agile and/or more traditional waterfall development activities.
• Familiar with end-to-end software and/or web/mobile application testing including functional and non-functional testing.
• Proven experience running and governing software development projects involving complex system integration from multiple 3rd party subcontractors.
• Proven experience from the successful delivery of projects involving business and technology change e.g. mobile app releases and project management of software releases in a retail environment.
• Proven background in stakeholder management, up to C-level, in both internal and customer organizations.

Preferred:

• PMP or CSM certifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A professional, credible and measured demeanor.
• Engaging, influential, dynamic and authoritative.
• Flexible, pragmatic and capable of adapting to customer and project needs.
• Capable of operating in a wide range of environments, cultures and customer situations.
• Broad level of expertise across the delivery of complex, software based solutions.
• Experience working in complex industries - both from a technical point of view and in a regulatory environment.
• Experience with systems integration and working with multiple third parties.
• Experience within one or more of the following industries: e-commerce, gaming, and retail environment.
• Solid understanding of end to end software development and testing cycles.
• Experience working in a startup environment and/or building up a project/program team from scratch.
• Financial services experience or consultancy background is a plus.

Benefits

Working For Camelot Illinois

We are a transformative lottery company with world-class people, technology, and operations that are committed to powering possibilities--for our employees, our partners, and our consumers. With grit and determination, we believe in doing not just the easy thing but the right thing. The Camelot values of doing good, being accountable, staying connected, keep improving, and spark enthusiasm are embedded in the design of our organization and our plans for Illinois.

• Do Good: We care about our communities, our stakeholders, and each other. We act with integrity & honesty, as a positive force for Illinois.
• Be Accountable: we drive results. And we continually strive to get those results more efficiently and effectively.
• Stay Connected: Being open, honest, and collaborative is what makes us, us. This is embodied in our messaging and communications and in how we treat each other.
• Keep Improving: We’re hungry to be better. We innovate and evolve our business, our teams, and ourselves, always with an eye on professional and personal growth.
• Spark Enthusiasm: We incorporate energy and laughter into every aspect of our work to create positive and entertaining experiences.

Career Development

We want people who thrive in an autonomous, collaborative, and results-driven environment to join our company. We believe the way to attract and retain the best talent is to offer a fulfilling experience and meaningful work in an organization committed to growing its people. Learning & Development is a top priority, and we partner with employees to grow and progress their professional skill sets.

Benefits and Employee Policies

We bring our experience of working with European lotteries to Illinois. We also bring a European influence to paid time off, family leave, and so on. We have created a strong ethical culture that is translated to each of our employees and business dealings globally. We offer a package of benefits and policies that competes with any private-sector employer in the state. We ensure that every employee is engaged and has the necessary support to understand and implement the responsible gaming principles at work.

Moreover, we pledge to have the highest standards of respect, diversity, and inclusion at our company and support and encourage our partners to do the same