Senior Technical Project Manager I

Job Overview:

As a Technical Project Manager, you will coordinate people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and produce the desired results. You will be the Point of contact for everything involving a project's delivery.

We're seeking a qualified and energetic project manager to help us maintain our position as an innovative authority. The ideal candidate will have some background in software development management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Creating long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
• Delegating tasks on the project to team members best positioned to complete them
• Managing a project backlog and regular 2 week sprints in Jira by cleaning tickets, prioritizing serious issues and making sure that new feature tickets are assigned to the appropriate sprint.
• Run daily scrum calls with a dynamic presence. Ensuring that developers and QA know what is needed from them by the end of the day.
• Setting up meetings and other checkpoints to make sure that questions are resolved in a smaller setting and devs have an opportunity to hash out problems. Be able to run the meeting by asking relevant questions, encouraging devs to talk, speaking up and asserting opinions.
• Serve as an advocate for our clients and our end users by understanding who we are trying to help and making sure that they are being accommodated with each code change. Have the ability to answer developer requirements question through the lens of how the user is going to interact with the software and what their unique needs are.
• Use meeting notes from a planning meeting to generate Jira tickets and organize them logically for the developer. This includes distilling requirements, open questions, next steps, etc that are a part of creating a new feature.
• Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are involved in the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy. Report and escalate to management as needed
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors. Communicating with Internal teams or the Program manager to keep the project aligned with their goals
• Work with QA engineers to perform quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected
• Comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously, with an inherent ability to work well under tight timelines and have proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Will be responsible for leading overall delivery of large-scale engineering projects
• Direct oversight of all development and delivery phases (that includes planning, configuration, deployment and releasing the tested code to Production) of technology projects
• Ensure delivery standards and best practices are utilized throughout the life of a project to ensure optimal delivery of the solution
• Drive key technical choices and proactively manage risks, issue and roadblocks to ensure success solution delivery
• Troubleshoot production runtime issues that may arise throughout the entire system.
• Participate in production deployments

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 7+ years of experience or master’s degree in a related field, including.
  • 5+ years managing software engineers or doing software development.
  • Running or participating in scrum.

• Ability to dissect, interpret and organize large amounts of data
• Experience working in software development management is preferred.
• Experience working with Jira or other similar bug tracking software to track and manage work
• Proficiency in web applications is a plus. The basics of how they are constructed, interact with end users and integrate with eachother on the web.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to work towards meeting multiple deadlines simultaneously
• Analytical thinker with able problem-solving abilities, dedicated to continuous improvement.
• The desire to put the time in to understand how a complex software application works on every layer.
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
• Be curious. Experiment. Ask questions. Get your hands dirty.

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

• Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.

• Our web applications are highly interactive and universally accessible.

• Our machine scoring methods are driven by artificial intelligence allowing computers to perform such complex operations as grading essays with more accuracy than humans.

• Our processes use intensive algorithmic computing allowing a customized experience for each student as the exam adapts real-time based upon answers given.

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers, while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.