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Lead planning, execution, and delivery of large to extra-large projects. Define scope, manage resources, budgets, risks, stakeholders, and quality. Produce status reports and documentation, mentor junior PMs, and ensure projects meet timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Lead mainframe performance and capacity management for an IBM zEnterprise Parallel Sysplex environment. Monitor RMF/SMF data, forecast capacity (MSU/MIPS), tune workloads and WLM policies, process SCRT billing, and collaborate with application and DevOps teams to optimize cost and service levels. Mentor peers and produce executive/operational reporting.

Leads underwriting operations across designated functions or regions, overseeing teams, budgets, policies, books of business, client relationships, and strategic initiatives. Partners with sales and underwriting leadership to manage workloads, assess risks, review complex quotes, maintain policy consistency, and support customer acquisition and retention. Responsible for staff development, performance management, regulatory adherence, portfolio results, and resolving sensitive client and business issues.

Lead a team in actuarial work, financial forecasting, and trend analytics to support Highmark's strategic direction and compliance in the healthcare industry.

Lead enterprise data security architecture to protect sensitive data across its lifecycle. Define strategies for encryption, key management, tokenization, masking, DLP, classification, database security, and Zero Trust. Advise execs and engineering on secure design patterns for data platforms (e.g., Starburst), cloud/on-prem systems, APIs, data pipelines, and AI/ML workloads. Develop roadmaps, evaluate technologies, mentor staff, and drive secure-by-design adoption across the organization.

Lead and manage the information security and risk management function, overseeing staff, policies, projects, budgets, and security technology. Drive compliance with corporate and regulatory standards, deliver training and awareness, coordinate audits, and collaborate with stakeholders to implement security strategies and continuous process improvements.

Designs, implements, tests, and maintains enterprise IAM/SSO solutions. Troubleshoots authentication/authorization issues, integrates federation protocols (SAML/OAuth/SCIM), applies patches, trains stakeholders, and advises on IAM best practices and compliance.

Lead actuarial studies and analyses using actuarial and statistical techniques for pricing, reserving, claims trends, profitability, predictive modeling, and wellness studies. Define problems, outline data needs, produce recommendations, present to management, mentor junior staff, ensure quality and consistency, and implement process improvements across cross-functional teams.

Support and learn to implement and operate mainframe storage hardware and software. Assist with day-to-day storage operations, production monitoring, incident/change management, documentation, and on-call rotation. Collaborate with stakeholders and architecture, perform technical analysis, and follow standards and processes to deliver reliable enterprise storage solutions.

Lead and manage finance cloud application support for Oracle ERP suite (Finance, Supply Chain, PPM) including day-to-day operations, upgrades, vendor management, team leadership (onshore/offshore), and strategic implementations to ensure system performance and data integrity.