Functional Software Project Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a detail oriented, customer-focused, and motivated Functional Software Project Manager with strong communication skills that is interested in becoming part of our Food and Drug Administration (FDA) team, supporting our customers with their critical mission needs.

The Functional Software Project Manager will be working with the software development team and analyzing business requirements and translating into actionable plans by identifying key capabilities, value streams, and process maps to ensure alignment across the organization. The individual will collaborate with diverse stakeholders across different teams to gather requirements, address challenges, and ensure buy-in on key deliverables.

Part of the role will require assessing the potential impact of new requirements on the business and systems, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending execution and mitigation strategies. The role will include process improvement, identifying inefficiencies in existing processes and designing solutions to optimize solutions and improve operational efficiency. The individual will collaborate with the execution team to ensure technology investments align with the product strategy and support the implementation of the target architecture.

**This role is a hybrid position requiring 3 days onsite at GDIT's Gaithersburg, MD office and Silver Spring, MD client location.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program/Client Management:

• Guide project meetings and other client engagements to meet customer expectations
• Participate and lead customer-facing communication, reporting on sprint progress, burn down, velocity, and story points
• Prepare and deliver frequent updates, maintaining positive customer relationships and ensuring a positive customer journey
• Prepare status updates with key milestones and deliverables, next steps, risks, and project timeline
• Manage timeline and scope ensuring customer expectations are met
• Communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully and resolve or escalate issues in a timely fashion
• Understand and validates the details of deliverables as provided by project resources

Product Management:

• Develop product roadmap with external stakeholders
• Manage product development using agile best practices
• Oversee analysis and documentation of customer’s business requirements and processes
• Oversee planning and design of business processes; assist in formulating recommendations to improve and support business activities.
• Assist in the research and assessment of business goals, objectives and needs to align information technology solutions with business initiatives
• Participate in testing activities such as functional testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Team/Agile Management:

• Lead and advise software development team and projects
• Work with the implementation team to develop releases plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized and visible to all the stakeholders
• Assist team to become self-organizing and self-managing to achieve its goals
• Ensure the team’s “definition of done” is well defined on the story, sprint, and release levels
• Be part of a continuous improvement mindset and recommend adjustments to established delivery practices
• Participate in Scrum meetings to represent Product Owner and ensure cross-team collaboration and coordination of release plans
• Communicate effectively with large and small project teams consisting of both technical and non-technical project stakeholders to set and manage client expectations and timelines throughout the project
• Provide transparency to senior leadership and work with design, development, information security, and other product management teams

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of related experience 
• 8+ years of managing large scale software application development projects
• Experience managing projects with multiple key stakeholders 
• Experience managing multi-system projects and self-organized, cross-functional project teams in a matrixed environment 
• Familiar with Agile values, principles, processes, and methods such as iterative and incremental development, burn down, continuous integration, test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, code refactoring, pair programming, and/or Scrum ceremonies 
• Moderate knowledge of the JIRA tracking tool 
• Ability to attain a Public Trust clearance 

Desired Qualifications: 

• PMP certification and Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner) 
• Prior or current experience working in a similar role at the Food and Drug Administration
• Appian technology experience 

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