About Us:
eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that works across government, partnering with our clients to improve the health and lives of millions of Americans, ensure the security of all Americans—from soldiers and veterans to kids and the elderly, and defend national interests on the battlefield. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that courageously equip Federal agencies with solutions to transform today for a better tomorrow for all Americans.
As a Technical Project Manager, you are responsible for ensuring effective and efficient execution against the technical requirements of our projects. You track progress on everything involved in and related to your teams, anticipating and removing roadblocks and reducing friction. This role requires learning technical concepts quickly, strong project management skills, and the ability to effectively engage with the customer and other key external stakeholders.
You will work with customers, developers, and product teams to see projects through to completion. You excel at customer expectation management. You are communicative enough to keep myriad internal and external stakeholders informed on project status, organized enough to ensure all deliverables ship at high quality and on time, and savvy enough to spot and mitigate key risks to timely project completion. If you are ready to steer high-impact projects to success, we are excited to have you on our team.
Core Responsibilities
- Liaise between teams of engineers and customers to drive successful product deliverables, as defined by adherence to scope, resources, and timeline.
- Monitor project progress continuously and watch for projects heading off-course, upcoming roadblocks, or deadlines in jeopardy.
- Communicate proactively with all stakeholders (e.g. product support, implementation team, business owners) to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Create detailed status reports on measurable items, such as milestones, deliverables, and risk.
- Develop detailed project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals, while coordinating business and technical personnel during all project phases from initial development through implementation.
- Review proposed modifications on project plans, including meeting with interested parties to approve and implement beneficial changes.
What We Value
- 7+ years of experience
- Project management experience and ability to manage a project against key timelines and milestones with high attention to detail
- Product support/software testing or related experience and/or CS or Engineering degree
- Experience managing a team of engineers and engaging with product teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to understand and communicate software architecture decisions to external stakeholders and create technical documentation
- Ability to understand and communicate software architecture decisions to external stakeholders
- Ability to understand product strategy and ensure it is implemented properly on your team
- Code management/collaboration experience (key tools include Jira, GitHub Enterprise)
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- Current possession and ongoing maintenance of secret security clearance that has been adjudicated within the past five years.
Working Environment:
eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients. Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager.
Occasional travel for training and project meetings. It is estimated to be less than 25% per year.
Benefits:
We offer a highly competitive salary and full healthcare benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
eSimplicity is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.