Technical Project Manager

DevTech Systems, Inc. (DevTech) is an international consulting firm dedicated to development, with 40 years of experience providing advisory services and technical assistance to government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in more than 100 countries. DevTech core practice areas include: Monitoring Evaluation, Research and Learning; Data Solutions; Public Financial Management and Fiscal Sustainability; and Education, Gender, and Youth. 

At DevTech, we care deeply about doing work that leads to positive change in the world. We celebrate diverse perspectives and are committed to an inclusive environment. We empower our employees to work autonomously and simultaneously give them the professional support that they need to learn and grow. 

DevTech is recruiting for a Technical Project Manager to work as part of an agile team, supporting our client, the Office of the Chief Information Officer. The agile teams develop website products that use data and visualizations designed to improve awareness, availability, access, and capacity to transform the way our client collects, analyzes, and uses data to ensure development outcomes are supported by evidence. The Technical Project Manager will support the full life cycle of implementing a data science solution; from requirements gathering through deployment to meet Agency and end-user needs.  The Technical Project Manager will use project management skills to estimate and track work, host coordination and status meetings, and manage risks and issues.   

Projects vary from requirements gathering only, through design and development of new websites.  The majority of completed projects are hosted in cloud-based (Azure and AWS) environments. 

• Understand and fully support client’s SDLC processes, artifacts, and governance phase gates 

• Assist with capturing project objectives, scope and developing plans and schedules to support these objectives 

• Lead, monitor, and motivate different teams across each project and interact with staff at all levels 

• Analyze, plan, and develop project procedures as needed to ensure coordination and communication amongst project teams and client teams 

• Define the roles and responsibilities along with various stakeholders for each project 

• Participate in the allocation of staff and other resource needed to accomplish or achieve project goals 

• Maintain and manage project plans, schedule, risk & issue logs, meeting minutes, and communicate project status reports 

• Escalate risks and issues that affect a project’s schedule 

• Recommend process improvements to help a project, team or organization improve 

• Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes. 

• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring all subordinates are actively working toward established milestones 

• Hold regular project team meetings to determine individual progress and address any questions or challenges regarding each project 

Required qualifications include:  

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in an IT-related discipline
• US Citizenship 

• Excellent communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders  

• Strong leadership skills to effectively manage projects 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality 

• Working technical knowledge of website application development 

• At least 4+ years of relevant project management working experience 

• Professional Project Management (PMP) Certification 

• Excellent time management and organizational skills  

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising development teams 

Preferred qualifications include: 

• Knowledge and/or proficiency with at least one software development language 

• Prior experience working with one or more defined SDLC methodologies 

• Ability to build relationships across different organizations 

• Current Secret security clearance preferred 

• Prior Platform-as-a-Service, Data Science project experience/knowledge 

The candidate must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for the required U.S. government security clearance for this project.

NOTE: This job posting should not be construed to imply that the requirements are the exclusive standards of the position nor will it be the sole basis for any subsequent employee evaluations. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform any other related duties as may be required by their supervisor. 
 
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), age (40 and older), physical and mental disability, genetic information (including family medical history) or characteristics, military status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship or alienage, or any other protected status as established by applicable federal, state, or local law.