Technology Project Manager; Temporary

The University of Washington’s Office of Research has an outstanding opportunity for a Sr. Technology Project Manager. This position is a 1-year term appointment with opportunity to renew.

The University of Washington’s Office of Research has an outstanding opportunity for a Sr. Technology Project Manager. This position is a 1-year term appointment with opportunity to renew.

Reporting to the Agile PMO Manager the Sr. Technology Project Manager is responsible for developing, directing, managing, and coordinating software integration and development projects for researcher specific projects. The person in this role will facilitate consensus among a diverse group of business owners and stakeholders. They will be responsible for development and implementation of project management approaches that meet agreed upon business goals.

Successful candidates must possess outstanding independent judgment in prioritizing critical information, and discretion and diplomacy in working within the larger University of Washington (UW) administrative environment.

• Working with resources to define scope, risks and objectives of major releases, individual projects and project phases; develop schedules and budgets, and monitor progress and risk across multiple streams
• Ensure project teams have adequate resources, skills and support to successfully deliver on prioritized efforts
• Serve software development team(s) as Scrum Master, facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments, coordinating feature development, testing, release and communications across product teams
• Promote agile project management and software development best practices.
• Meet regularly with internal and external stakeholders to schedule projects/features based on prioritization from managers
• Lead, organize and influence positively and effectively, working through unstructured problems and creating the structure necessary to drive for results
• Facilitate resolution of issues within the project decision making structure, determining appropriate escalation and resolution of issues
• Provide overall project leadership and management, including managing scope of projects, schedules and budgets, and generating status reports
• Direct, create, and implement project plans, status updates, risk mitigation plans and other planning materials to support project execution and control activities
• Provide direct and indirect oversight for assigned projects
• Evaluate resources needed for project and make recommendations/requests
• Work with all levels of management to critically evaluate and communicate business issues/risks to campus clients and team members
• Implement appropriate process and policies to collect and report metrics on project performance
• Initiate project proposals when existing products need to be upgraded or replaced or products need to be built or acquired to fill gaps
• Advise on the impact of novel, developing, and mature applications of IT solutions as they relate to research at the University of Washington

• Review requirements gathered from stakeholder and system user interviews to ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs and to uncover gaps clients may not have identified
• Analyze problems and risks, formulate conclusions, and make recommendations
• Define parameters of metrics to measure impact of projects, determine means of measure, report results
• Lead standing and ad hoc work groups to define business needs and potential solutions
• Use agile methodologies to break complex feature requirements into manageable chunks of work that deliver value to the end user
• Create artifacts as needed to support clear understanding of business needs,…