Summary: Project management responsibilities include delivering every project on time within budget and scope. Project managers should have a background in business skills, management, budgeting and analysis as well as software development or operations and maintenance of IT systems. Project managers are skilled at getting the best out of the people and projects that they oversee. They thrive when planning projects and working with project teams.

Required Education: Bachelors Degree or higher in a business or technical discipline; PMP Certification

Required Years of Experience: 10 years, or 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education

VA and/or Healthcare IT experience required

Responsibilities:

• Allocate resources to open project positions, effectively matching skills, maturity, and subject matter expertise;
• Collect performance feedback from peers, project leadership and provides constructive feedback to the resource;
• Meet regularly with full-time staff to discuss career development opportunities;
• Work with project and technology leadership to remediate project/staff issues and conflicts; escalate to direct supervisor as necessary;
• Develop a resource plan, taking into account roadmaps, capacity needs, current staffing levels, current and future skills needs, and core competencies to adequately and cost-effectively staff programs, projects, and resources while minimizing key person dependencies;
• Work closely with Human Resources (HR), Recruiting, third party vendors, and scope of work (SOW) providers to acquire resources in line with the resource plan, position rates, and duration;
• Collect operational metrics on the effectiveness of the engineering team(s); Perform root cause analysis on production defects and recurring quality issues initiating improvement efforts appropriately; Partner with other technology teams on broader improvement initiatives in order to reduce unit cost, reduce cycle time, and reduce the number of defects while increasing business value;
• Collect and conduct performance reviews aligned with the corporate policies and timelines; Participate in calibration/stack ranking exercises.
• Lead definition of software design of new features and work cooperatively with Business Analysts and UI Designers
• Work cooperatively with Project Managers, QA, and Network Operations to ensure a successful, well communicated, high quality release
• Develop, mentor, and coach an engineering team to build a strong development team, increase team effectiveness, and promote individual team member’s growth
• Create software development schedules for features and releases
• Create software development LOEs for feature requests
• Define, improve, and promote software engineering processes and best practices
• Lead and collaborate with other members of software engineering group including our Software Architects in defining and maintaining product architecture
• Monitor technology trends for new opportunities and improvements 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in an Agile/Scrum organization; Well versed in agile software development techniques, conference room pilots, prototyping
• Experience in Federal contracting
• Experience in Health IT
• Exceptional decision-making ability in a dynamic, aggressive environment
• High standards and results-orientation with a commitment to delivering high quality software on time
• Experience mentoring and training staff including software developers
• Experience working with remote team members
• Ability to build, maintain, and inspire a team
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with system integration technologies, service oriented architecture (SOA), web services, software design principles, tools and applications
• Experience with large scale web applications, system architectures, and data architectures
• Excellent communication skills – written/verbal/presentation
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on CMMI Level 3 programs.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Prior technology leadership experience (i.e., Lead Architect, Lead Consultant, Manager, Director, Program Manager)
• 10+ years experience in software development and 5+ years of experience developing web applications
• 5+ years experience as software development manager
• Needs to demonstrate exceptional decision making ability in a dynamic and an aggressive environment
• Has high standards, results oriented, and a commitment to delivering high quality software on time
• Experience with mentoring and training staff