Job Description
ECS is seeking an experienced Project Manager to work remotely providing Project Management support for the work performed under this contract for NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies (NEAT). All other tasks are intended to facilitate the implementation and operation of Enterprise Clinical Information Systems. This engagement provides a spectrum of management, technologies development, applications/software engineering, bioinformatics support, and professional development. The Project Manager will provide professional support services, technical leadership, and ensure the efficient and effective delivery of services and projects.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon [contract win].
The NIAID NEAT Software Project Manager will oversee all aspects of the project, leading a team on large projects or a significant segment of large and complex projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze new and complex project-related problems and create innovative solutions that normally involve the schedule, technology, methodology, tools, solution components, and financial management of the project.
- Provide applications systems analysis and long and short-range plans for application selection, systems development, systems maintenance, and production activities for necessary support resources.
- Managing finances and burn rates for the team and augmenting staff as needed.
- Analyze complex, multi-task interrelated projects, assess risk and mitigate potential risk to project success.
- Prepare and present HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) stage gate deliverables and presentations to review boards.
- Ensure Agile teams follow web and mobile UI/UX industry best practices, standards and lessons learned.
- Foster a thriving and fast-paced work environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.
- Facilitate, manage, and maintain Agile artifacts, including user stories, backlogs, and sprint plans.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and Scrum Masters to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
- Conduct and/or participate in formal and informal reviews throughout the development life cycle.
- Support software application modernization efforts at NIAID including conducting proof-of-concept and pilot projects to evaluate applications and modernization approaches.
- Assist stakeholders in conducting market research on application software and tools.