Technical Project Manager Ii

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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization at the University of Washington (UW). Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations.
IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world's most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which are cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members.
IHME has an outstanding opportunity for a Technical Project Manager II on the Scientific Computing team.
POSITION PURPOSE
We are looking for a Technical Project Manager II who is technically proficient, an effective communicator, and able to operate independently. They will work with internal teams and external stakeholders to define requirements, determine milestones, facilitate coordination, track progress, and ultimately ensure timely delivery of AI-aided applications and research engineering deliverables. The TPM II will provide diplomatic and timely communication in an agile work environment with iterative planning and delivery cycles.
The Technical Project Manager II must navigate multiple teams and complex project logistics while remaining focused on key details of the research deliverables to facilitate effective coordination between teams in order to achieve deadlines. They must develop an understanding of the key elements of the engineering projects that they will be tasked with driving to success. The individual will need to monitor and assess adherence to project communication protocols, track progress against deadlines, and help to resolve roadblocks. The TPM II facilitates strong communication among Functional and Technology teams, schedules and orchestrates meetings, and manages action item lists that result from them. They must be able to communicate well with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and knowledge bases. Most importantly, the TPM II must carry out their responsibilities with a high degree of accuracy, timeliness, and awareness to help flag priorities and potential problems in order to find solutions that keep the project progressing on tight timelines.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management
• Understand project goals and translate those goals into action to deliver interdependent products on deadline.
• Gather requirements for the team's technical products from stakeholders.
• Develop work plans for engineers to implement requirements using knowledge of technical dependencies and infrastructure.
• Liaise with the relevant teams to scope, communicate, implement, and test technical requirements and dependencies to deliver products on deadline.
• Perform risk assessments within a project; determine tradeoffs across possible implementations.
• Utilize project management tools to ensure high-quality and timely technical coordination.
• Detail and document complex analytic processes through the creation of flowcharts, requirements documentation, and other relevant materials.
• Act as a point of contact between technical and non-technical staff.
Team Management
• Work across supervisory structures to ensure work is properly prioritized.
• Coordinate tasks across a team of engineers and assess progress across deliverables.
• Formally or informally supervise and train team members, providing guidance, coaching, and support.
• Ensure the team works effectively with other groups at IHME; promote cross-organization teamwork.
Research Learning
• Understand how the software native to IHME's modeling endeavor maps to specific research objectives.
• Become fluent with existing project management software used across projects, and potentially make recommendations for how other tools could be leveraged.
• Translate non-technical research outcomes from a diverse set of clients into tangible development requirements.
• Develop and maintain a high-level understanding of generative AI technologies, and how they relate to the work of IHME's Science and Engineering team.
• As needed, develop baseline understanding of epidemiological modeling principles.
• Perform additional duties as assigned that fall within the reasonable scope of this position.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, mathematics, computer science, or related field and four years' experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects with multiple dependencies and constraints.
• Ability to communicate effectively and establish credibility with technical and non-technical stakeholders including executive staff.
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving experience.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Must exhibit strong desire and ability to learn new intellectual content across different disciplines in a timely fashion.
• Strong sense of focus and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated organizational skills, self-motivation, flexibility, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, energetic, highly creative, entrepreneurial environment.
• A commitment to working alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive. See IHME's DEI statement here: https://www.healthdata.org/about/mission-vision/DEI.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Statistics and/or public health interest.
• Developer experience, including writing, testing, and deploying code.
• Experience coordinating experimental or production-level applications of Large Language Model technology.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
• Weekend and evening work sometimes required.
• This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US. The UW is not able to sponsor visas for staff positions
• Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US.
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The University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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