T Rowe Price Group, Inc
Planview PPM Administrator / Analyst
T Rowe Price Group, Inc, SOUTHERN MD FACILITY, MD
Requisition Number: 69850
Position Title:
External Description:
This role exists in the Corporate Technology team, specifically in the Enterprise Transformation Office IT team. This team owns the development and business change software including Rally, Jira/Jira Service Management, and eventually Planview PPM tool. The team is looking for a system administrator for the newly procured Planview PPM tool. This role will be involved in the design and initial rollout of the tool along with the vendor and business partners this year and further across the firm in the future. Reporting to the Lead Business Analyst of Enterprise Transformation IT, you will support configuration and design of the tool throughout initial deployment and eventually production support as the tool goes live to the firm.
Overview
In this role, you will act as the main interface between technology infrastructure and a specific business/functional area. Incumbents help define business requirements, build application, and process specifications, coordinate with delivery teams, and ensure that work is prioritized by business value and in alignment with the overarching business and technical strategies. Incumbents will be involved in the writing of technical materials/documentation. You will be required to transform sometimes ambiguous functional requirements into specific technical requirements and work with the business to solve complex business problems with users from across the organization in technology and business roles and suggest viable solutions.
Role summary and job responsibilities:
Business knowledge
Requirements
Preferred Experience:
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for remote work up to three days a week.
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Community / Marketing Title: Planview PPM Administrator / Analyst
Company Profile:
Location_formattedLocationLong: Maryland, US
CountryEEOText_Description: Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.Benefits: We invest in our people through a wide range of programs and benefits, including: • Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions• Flexible and remote work opportunities• Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)• Tuition assistance• Wellness programs (fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program)Our policies may change as our working lives evolve. Yet, our commitment to supporting our associates' well-being and addressing the needs of our clients, business, and communities is unwavering.T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.
Position Title:
External Description:
This role exists in the Corporate Technology team, specifically in the Enterprise Transformation Office IT team. This team owns the development and business change software including Rally, Jira/Jira Service Management, and eventually Planview PPM tool. The team is looking for a system administrator for the newly procured Planview PPM tool. This role will be involved in the design and initial rollout of the tool along with the vendor and business partners this year and further across the firm in the future. Reporting to the Lead Business Analyst of Enterprise Transformation IT, you will support configuration and design of the tool throughout initial deployment and eventually production support as the tool goes live to the firm.
Overview
In this role, you will act as the main interface between technology infrastructure and a specific business/functional area. Incumbents help define business requirements, build application, and process specifications, coordinate with delivery teams, and ensure that work is prioritized by business value and in alignment with the overarching business and technical strategies. Incumbents will be involved in the writing of technical materials/documentation. You will be required to transform sometimes ambiguous functional requirements into specific technical requirements and work with the business to solve complex business problems with users from across the organization in technology and business roles and suggest viable solutions.
Role summary and job responsibilities:
- Accountability for work of self and sometimes others, provides process and standards advice in area of specialty
- Responsible for creating/maintaining system documentation and best practices.
- Comfortable working independently
- Defining complex or enterprise-wise business needs for new and/or enhanced products, services, or optimized business processes
- Working closely and develops relationships with a variety of senior level internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are understood, documented, and met
- Ensuring a lean-agile mind-set is applied to work projects
- Working on initiatives of moderate complexity, size and impact
- Ability to breakdown complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way
- Able to evolve a decision as new information is gained
- Finding opportunities for process improvements
- Assisting in implementation of new processes as technologies, risks, and methodologies evolve
- Displaying dedication to helping team members/makes suggestions to improve practices
- Assist end users with functional issues or questions.
- Manage changes to existing configured screens or fields. Add configured screens/fields.
- Manage changes to dashboards, tiles, portlets
- Gather requirements, analyze, and make recommendation for product updates to current vision.
- Assist in creation/revision/execution of test plans, functional testing or application testing during rollout.
- Support design of integrations from PPM tool to other applications in HR (Workday), Accounting (Oracle Financials), and Development (Rally/Jira)
- Willingness to take required training from Planview to become a certified admin.
- Administer users including grants, roles, etc.
Business knowledge
- Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Project Management and best practices
- You demonstrate knowledge of product/flows within the domain supported
- You articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions
- Your decisions show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility
Requirements
- Typically, 5+ years in a technical business analysis, system admin, or development role for a project management or change management software
- Identify system/process/data impacts (upstream and downstream) and propose appropriate alternatives/ remediation
- Knows the latest best-of-breed technologies
- Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences using multiple forms such as verbal and written
- Demonstrate proficient understanding in multiple technologies/ applications
- Identify impacts across teams and coordinate across senior levels to manage dependencies and potentially competing priorities
- Proficient in using Power BI to gather data from sources and create reports
- SQL proficiency intermediate to advanced
- A solid (or developing) understanding of how organizations manage work and resources and a thorough understanding of the processes and methodologies supporting organizations management practices.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with Planview Project or Agile place or other Project Portfolio Management software (i.e. Clarity, ServiceNow, Apptio)
- Experience with Jira Cloud, Jira Service Management, and Rally a plus
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for remote work up to three days a week.
City:
State:
Community / Marketing Title: Planview PPM Administrator / Analyst
Company Profile:
Location_formattedLocationLong: Maryland, US
CountryEEOText_Description: Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:We strive for equity, equality, and opportunity for all associates. When we embrace the power of diversity and create an environment where people can bring their authentic and best selves to work, our firm is stronger, and we create greater value for our clients. Our commitment and inclusive programming aim to lift the experience for each associate and builds allies for our global associate community. We know that a sense of belonging is key not only to your success at the firm, but also to your ability to bring your best each day.Benefits: We invest in our people through a wide range of programs and benefits, including: • Competitive pay and bonuses as well as a generous retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan with matching contributions• Flexible and remote work opportunities• Health care benefits (medical, dental, vision)• Tuition assistance• Wellness programs (fitness reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program)Our policies may change as our working lives evolve. Yet, our commitment to supporting our associates' well-being and addressing the needs of our clients, business, and communities is unwavering.T. Rowe Price is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of thought, gender, and race. We believe our continued success depends upon the equal treatment of all associates and applicants for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender, age, mental or physical disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, pregnancy, or any other classification protected by country, federal, state, or local law.