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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # System & Application Project Lead - **Company:** Howmet Aerospace - **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $110,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Information Systems, Software Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Information Technology - **Published:** July 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gk6ig4 ## About the Role + Bachelor's degree in Information systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or IT from an accredited institution. + Minimum of 6 years working in an IT or IT adjacent field + Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Preferred Qualifications: + Experience with managing projects, vendors, and teams. + Experience with project management tools and techniques. + Experience in Robots Process automation cognitive platforms is a plus. + Demonstrated customer focus, interpersonal and relationship management. ## Description Howmet is currently searching for a System & Application Project Lead, to join our Global Information Systems (GIS) Resource Unit at the Howmet Corporate Center in Pittsburgh, PA . This position will report into Corporate Applications area and be part of a strong team that actively designs, builds, and maintains our innovative solutions that address Howmet Aerospace business and customer needs. Primary Focus and Opportunities of this Role: The System & Application Project Lead will have a dual focus on delivering end-to-end automation initiatives that drive operational efficiency across the enterprise and managing the Project & Portfolio Management platform (deployment management) that ensures seamless, secure and automated code migrations. Major Activities/Key Challenges: + Collaborate and manage with an offshore support organization for enhancements and support work , service desk and vendor management. + Monitor, assess and lead remediation efforts as part of the Corporate Vulnerability management program for the respective application spaces. + Works as part of a geographically dispersed team supporting a variety of technologies. + Possess a thorough understanding of the business purpose and processes in area of responsibility and participates in the analysis of the customer's processes to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. + Leads small to medium-scale projects following the GIS Project management methodology and Organizational Change management model. + Balance multiple assignments and manage against scope, resource, timelines requirements, while tracking risks and issues + Strong Problem solving and consulting skills. Effective problem description, root cause analysis, and ability to present short- and long-term options. + Manage workload assignments and priorities, facilitate team discussion and request priorities, direct others in supporting and enhancing existing system and technology. + Leads teams to solve problems and implement solutions without direct supervision. + Provide timely, accurate, and required documentation as needed. + Work to continuously improve relationships with customers and business partners including the collaboration to resolve support issues and deliver enhancement requests. + Monitor/complete development requests from internal customers and resolve issues quickly and accurately to meet tight deadlines and accelerated customer priorities. + Provide/coordinate support in system upgrades, preventive maintenance, deployments on the systems/technologies. ## Related Videos - [The Avengers Initiative (Practical Ethics for Software Engineers)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2070-the-avengers-initiative-practical-ethics-for-software-engineers) - [Microservices? 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