Software Project Manager

Manchester, NH
Full Time
Software
Mid Level
We are seeking an organized, self-motivated software development professional to join our growing team. This position will plan, coordinate and track the activities of a medical device software development team, working with product owners to create development plans, curate the backlog, and ensure development processes embody best practices. If you are a leader-doer passionate and energetic about problem solving and delivering real products to market with a world-class product development team, we want to hear from you!

The Software Project Manager will:
  • Define integration milestones and waypoints for software features supporting the product roadmap, including defining and maintaining a detailed change list, tracking team member work assignments, and managing prioritized backlogs as projects evolve
  • Coordinate activities of the software development team with other cross-functional teams (ie. Systems, V&V, Regulatory and Quality) resulting in periodic integrated software releases
  • Ensure projects meet milestones, quality measures and cybersecurity requirements in a timely manner through planning, identifying and removing roadblocks, and contributing to project deliverables
  • Evaluate and implement internal and external tools, promoting best practices in agile development and continuous integration/continuous delivery
  • Prepare necessary design and test documentation to support FDA pre-market submissions
  • Interact with a fast-paced collaborative development team day-to-day, it requires working onsite; it is not a telecommuting position
Skills we are looking for:
  • Technical Bachelor’s degree (i.e. STEM), at least 2 years of experience in software development and technical project leadership
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
  • Knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
  • Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
  • Experience using and/or configuring JIRA, Confluence, or similar project tool
About DEKA:
For over forty years, DEKA Research & Development Corp. has made Manchester, New Hampshire home. Housed in the largest industrial complex of its time, the historic Amoskeag Millyard, DEKA employs a team of over one thousand professionals, whose engineering, design, manufacturing and quality expertise make DEKA a hot spot for creating innovative solutions and advanced technologies. Located about an hour from Boston, the beach, and the mountains, DEKA is one of the leading research and development companies in the country and is the birthplace of some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time.
 
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