Technical Project Manager - Remote (WFH)

Position Summary: Cognitive is seeking a Technical Project Manager to manage business processes and technical projects that support government programs and customers. This Tech Project Manager will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and execution of healthcare technology, business processes, and clinical projects within the Defense Health Agency. The position will play an important role in customer relationship management.

Duties:

• Responsible for oversight of business and technical project team(s) to ensure a successful, on-time, on-budget project delivery
• Ensure that all customer contract (statement of work) requirements are met or exceeded, on-time and within budget
• Responsible for managing customer relationships that ensure high levels of satisfaction
• Responsible for managing the relationships with partner vendors to ensure successful integration between systems and products
• Responsible for creating and managing a project schedule, by working with team members to identify tasks, estimating and managing their durations
• Responsible for partnering with primes and subcontractors by setting goals, reviewing tasks, providing direction, scheduling meetings and management of task completion
• Responsible for clear and concise status reports (e.g. biweekly, monthly) and meeting minutes to senior internal leadership and customer stakeholders
• Responsible for identification and management of issues and risks, with appropriate and timely escalation to internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for project budgets, including direct labor and subcontractor labor
• Responsible for driving Agile team scrum objectives and customer deliverables to completion
• Oversee building of work planning into a platform (i.e. Jira)

Requirements:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Ten (10) years of Project Manager experience
• 5-7 years’ experience leading professional, technical, clinical or support staff
• 3 years’ experience managing government contracts
• Demonstrated experience with a health-related system and/or corporate systems
• Experience managing technical and business projects
• Experience with budget and contract management
• Strong writing skills: ability to produce technical or clinical documentation and reporting
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills for interacting with team members as well as external customers and partners
• Strong communication skills to listen to the customer and articulate back technical solutions
• Ability to interface with high level corporate and government managers
• US Citizenship required

Need To Have:

• Experience with building, implementing, or managing clinical quality measures and/or clinical decision support artifacts
• Experience managing a team of clinical and technical partners building artifacts for implementation in a healthcare setting

Nice to Have:

• Agile training
• Experience working with the Defense Health Agency