The Role
Seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead Agile delivery, requirements gathering, and project coordination across technology initiatives in Public Health Systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are seeking a highly organized and technology proficient Technical Project Manager to support and lead requirements gathering, Agile delivery, and project coordination across multiple technology initiatives within our Public Health Systems division. This role blends product management activities such as gathering business requirements and defining user stories with core project management responsibilities, including JIRA management, stand-up/sprint coordination, and cross-team communication. The ideal candidate can translate business needs into actionable development tasks, coordinate Agile workflows, and communicate clearly with technical teams, public health partners, and internal stakeholders. This position offers a strong growth path into senior technical project management or product management roles within a mission-driven, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Product & Requirements Management
- Lead discussions with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to gather, refine, and document business requirements for new implementations and enhancements.
- Translate requirements into Epics, User Stories, acceptance criteria, and process workflows.
- Maintain and organize product documentation, including requirements, user journeys, and feature definitions.
- Support creation and maintenance of PRDs, roadmaps, and traceability documentation as needed.
- Plan, schedule, and track project deliverables, sprints, and milestones.
- Manage resource allocations and overall project financial forecasting
- Own and maintain JIRA boards, including backlog grooming, prioritization, sprint setup, and work tracking.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Monitor timelines, dependencies, and risks, escalating blockers when needed.
- Document meetings, decisions, and follow-up actions to ensure alignment across teams.
- Prepare updates, release notes, sprint summaries, and client communications.
- Support demos, walkthroughs, and stakeholder presentations.
- Respond to inquiries, document requests, and ensure clear routing to the appropriate technical or business team.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, and DevOps to ensure requirements are fully understood and implemented correctly.
- Participate in testing and validation activities to confirm acceptance criteria are met.
- Assist in UAT coordination, release readiness checks, and post-launch activities.
- Help triage issues, validate reported problems, and support Help Desk processes when relevant.
- Prepare project status reports, milestone summaries, and performance metrics.
- Maintain accurate documentation of requirements, deliverables, sprint outcomes, and project history.
- Support cross-team reporting on progress, resource use, and upcoming priorities.
Project Coordination & Agile Delivery
Client and Stakeholder Support
Technical and Operational Support
Reporting and Documentation
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, Public Health, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Three to five years of experience in technical project management, product coordination, business analysis, or related hybrid roles.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery, backlog management, and software development workflows.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear and actionable documentation (Epics, User Stories, acceptance criteria).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency with project management and documentation tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Experience working in environments using Drupal, Moodle, or other content/learning management systems.
- Familiarity with interoperability standards, EHR workflows, or public health systems.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies or participation in Agile ceremonies.
- Understanding of software environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod) and release cycles.
- Ability to create process flows, wireframes, or technical documentation is a plus
Preferred Skills
Logistical Requirements
- At this time, we will only accept candidates who are presently eligible to work in the United States and will not require sponsorship.
- Our organization requires that all work, for the duration of your employment, must be completed in the continental U.S. unless required by contract.
- Must be able to work during eastern time unless approved by your manager.
- Employees working remotely must have a dedicated, ergonomically appropriate workspace free from distractions with a mobile device that allows for productive and efficient conduct of business.
Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. We work primarily on behalf of federal and state governments to design and implement solutions that achieve measurable results. We combine our expertise in public health and health care delivery with technology development and implementation, practice transformation, training and technical assistance, quality improvement, data analytics, and applied research and evaluation. Our innovative solutions and proven processes lead to better value and health for all.
Altarum is an equal opportunity employer that provides employment and opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Top Skills
Confluence
JIRA
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The Company
What We Do
Altarum is a nonprofit research and consulting organization that creates and implements solutions to advance health among at-risk and disenfranchised populations. We're driven to solve tough problems for the greater good, and we do so by working closely with government insurance programs to conceive of and implement improvements to address the unique population health challenges of their beneficiaries.
Our solutions are holistic, enabled by technology, and intently focused on prevention and appropriate care. From low-income children to frail elders, we help the most vulnerable in society, those whose health is negatively impacted by social determinants.
Our wholly-owned subsidiary, Palladian Partners, expands on this work through health communications.
Altarum has a dynamic and entrepreneurial culture, a purpose-driven mission, and a firm commitment to diversity and inclusion. We're also making an outsize impact in our work with some of the most influential institutions in health and health care. Our work environment is friendly and our benefits package generous. Ready to check out our opportunities?
