Software Development Project Manager

Software Development Project Manager

Requirements

• Masters Degree
• Minimum of FOUR (4) years of experience
• 2+ years of experience managing bioinformatics projects; prior experience with project management duties that include responsibilities for a 5-10 member team; and demonstrated experience with the activities described in the duties above.
• 2+ years of experience coordinating with research scientists and clinicians; coordination activities could include gathering requirements, organizing focus groups, and developing communication strategies, policies, SOPs, and/or user support documents.
• Experience developing project documentation for senior management and development teams, organizing and facilitating site meetings, and preparing and distributing meeting minutes to all relevant parties.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills to a wide variety of audiences; Proficiency with MS Office applications.
• Demonstrated knowledge of privacy and security policies and implementations related to healthcare systems.
• Demonstrated ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to work independently and to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Liaising with project partners for both ongoing and prospective projects to capture and summarize user feedback and feature development requests.
• Organizing focus groups and training and outreach efforts.
• Preparing project plans, including resource estimates and schedules for presentation to stakeholders, including those for Enterprise Lifecycle (EPLC) stage gate reviews; this includes capturing measures to comply with enterprise security policies and ensuring their implementation.
• Designing, testing, and supporting end-user documentation.
• Helping to run development sprints, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and regular reporting.
• Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external clients to reassess, renegotiate, and amend the scope of work responsibilities, proposals, contracts, and budgets.
• Recording, tracking, and measuring team, program, and project metrics; tracking milestones and timelines across projects to ensure the completion of deliverables and adherence to timelines.
• Analyzing and resolving issues that could jeopardize performance and/or the ability to meet agreed-upon milestones and deliverables.
• Assigning and tracking contractor work goals, maintaining acceptable time commitments and quality expectations.
• Maintaining compliance with program and project configuration management needs.
• Researching tools in the marketplace and evaluation for inclusion in the project.
• Providing feedback on usability/user experience.
• Implementing operational improvements approved by senior management.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in a scientific or technical field