Skyward is hiring a
Project Manager

Summary

Join Skyward as a Project Manager to lead a team supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by disseminating data to researchers. Requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of experience in project management, with specific experience in federal IT projects, agile methodologies, matrixed teams, and using Jira and Confluence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• At least 3 years of experience planning and executing projects
• Experience managing federal IT projects that includes professional support services and software engineering
• Agile certification (i.e., PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner)
• Experience with one or more different agile methodologies, including Scrum, Lean, or SAFe
• Experience managing matrixed teams
• Experience documenting and writing things
• Experience using Jira and Confluence (you know, to document)

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that is supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by disseminating data to researchers who are studying ways to improve the quality and reduce the cost of care provided to chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries
• Provide technical, administrative, and operational management to assigned projects or task(s)
• Participate in the development of technical project plans, reports, schedules and administrative reporting
• Conducts planning and provides recommendations on task workload
• Manage risk tracking process
• Attend customer meetings and serve as client liaison
• Coordinates development of deliverables and products
• Ensure quality assurance of project deliverables
• Create, update, and maintain a modernization plan for existing IT systems that includes scope, an implementation strategy, schedule, results-oriented goals, and measures
• Conduct analyses of previously implemented systems, ensuring each system is meeting customer and business needs, and identify areas for innovation

Preferred Qualifications

• Your entire project management experience has been supporting federal agencies
• You eat, sleep, and breathe IT project management and agile methodologies

Benefits

$104,000 - $140,000 a year