Technical Project Manager - Saviance Technologies

Technical Project Manager

Dallas, TX- Remote

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About BigR.io:

BigR.io is a remote-based, technology consulting firm with headquarters in Boston, MA. We deliver software solutions ranging from: custom development, software implementation, data analytics, and machine learning/AI integrations. We are a one-stop shop that attracts clients from a variety of industries because of our proven ability to deliver cutting-edge and cost-conscious software solutions.

With extensive domain knowledge, BigR.io has teams of data architects, data engineers, software engineers, web developers, and consultants who deliver best-in-class solutions across a variety of verticals. Our diverse industry exposure equips us with invaluable tools, tricks, and techniques to tackle complex software and data challenges.

About the Job:

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager with a strong understanding of Agile Methodology projects to support our client. The right candidate will possess a passion for technology and the ability to understand and assess new technologies.

About You:

This position will be a great fit for someone with a proven track record of driving enterprise-scale IT projects, managing multiple priorities simultaneously, setting timelines, holding people accountable and delivering projects on-time and on budget. Your leadership will help guide the completion of complex solutions created in an Agile environment. Experience developing healthcare applications is a great plus!

Responsibilities:

Scrum needs:

• Day-to-day facilitation of agile ceremonies
• Experience leading application development teams.
• Liaising with central teams to ensure work progresses when team has dependencies, including launching new clients; leading and enabling care hub production deployments
• Support and execute release planning activities, ensuring sprints are filled to adequate levels and acceptance criteria and are cleared with QA.
• Managing deployment needs that are technical in nature with third-party vendors to ensure necessary organizational milestones are met (including coordination; implementation timeline creation; risk elevation; etc.)
• Special project management assistance: supporting assessing impacts to the team and helping to ensure prompt execution when large-scale initiatives roll out across the organization, including corporate rebranding, IVR system changes, etc.
• Assessing and unblocking the team when disruptions to critical delivery timelines occur

Goals:

• Project management/ scrum leaders can identify risks, take preventative action to minimize them, and liaise with external teams and vendors to push work forward.
• Scrum leader has the bandwidth to communicate proactively regarding capacity, and where and how our team can increase velocity based on how the team is progressing work on the roadmap
• The backlog is filled with refined stories that meet needs and are groomed up to 2+ sprints in advance such that we can pull items forward based on changes in bandwidth, complexity, etc. We can 'get out ahead' of the engineering team's capacity.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field
• Experience working with tight deadlines and handling escalations.
• 5+ years of related experience: managing projects and teams, working with tight deadlines and handling potential escalations, working with Machine Learning concepts
• Research experience a plus