Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager



Job ID: 6288
Location: US-DC-Washington

Category: Information Technology/Software


More information about this job:

Overview:
The Computer and Statistical Sciences Center (CSSC) supports the Assessment program through software design and development and applied statistics specific to educational assessment. The staff comprises more than sixty software engineers, programmers, project managers, graphic designers, technical writers, testers, and system analysts.

CSSC's main services include, but are not limited to:
. Building and maintaining systems around pre-production, processing, analysis, online testing, and electronic reporting of assessments
. Conducting analyses and generating data for assessment reports
. Performing research and development towards innovative functions of assessment systems
. Supporting systems around hosting, code and data deployments, system back-ups, etc.

We are currently seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our software development group.


Responsibilities:
The Senior Technical Project Manager will be primarily responsible for the following:
. Develop requirements, budgets, and schedules for the software development projects.
. Facilitate requirements meetings, including the peer review sessions, and status meetings with clients and project team.
. Establish milestones, anticipates issues, and monitors adherence to project scope, requirements and design documents, schedules, and to the CSSC software development process.
. Assume day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that the project is completed on time and within budget, and that all deliverables are of the highest quality.
. Work closely with the CSSC Technical Project Management team to: share best practices, help resolve project issues, and ensure that staff is properly allocated to tasks by considering staff's skills and interests, and the project's needs.
. Maintain client relations and communications including status reporting and informal conversations.


Qualifications:
This position requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or a Master's Degree in MIS, Business Management or a related field and a minimum of 5 yrs of Project Management experience or a Bachelor's Degree in the above fields and a minimum of 7 years of experience. Must have excellent oral and written skills with the ability to matrix manage a software team that includes graphic designers, developers and software testers. Must be familiar with project management tools such as Microsoft Project or BaseCamp and versioning tools such as CVS. Experience with SQL and/or SAS to analyze data is desired. Demonstrated experience required: knowledge of all phases of software development cycle, ability to develop project plans, requirements documents, and project budgets. Familiarity with quality assurance practices is required. Experience required in applying best practices in project management, including those used to initiate, plan, control, monitor and report upon all phases of project activity. Must have a quick aptitude for learning new software.

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