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Senior Technical Project Manager
Dallas, TX

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Job Description

Overview

Medecision is looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager, a passionate power contributor who will provide effective collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and coaching skills supporting the development of our applications. This person will have a group of developers as direct reports and be responsible for their development and evaluations. The position will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Development best practices, removing impediments from their teams while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work.

You, as the Senior Technical Project Manager, have deep knowledge and expertise in software engineering processes and best practices and the judgement and practical experience to lead high-performing engineering teams.

Are you ready? We are! Join us in our journey toward liberating American healthcare one cool innovation at a time!

Reports to: Senior Director, Engineering

Location(s): Dallas, TX

Responsibilities

YOU'RE GOOD AT:

* Create and manage performance to major job objectives and overall job description including behavioral norms for your direct reports
* Mentor individuals and guide career development
* Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
* Administrative management duties including vacation schedules, sick time, weekly time logging, and other corporate compliance standards
* Communicate with other managers, developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product or personnel issues
* Serves as a technical mentor to developers to developers that are direct reports
* Create and maintain detailed plans for development projects
* Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
* Assist team with making appropriate commitments through work selection and task definition
* Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency
* Assist with prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
* Track and communicate project/release progress
* Organize and facilitate estimation, business requirements review and planning update meetings
* Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments

Qualifications

YOU HAVE:

* 5+ years past experience in a development environment with modern technology stacks, including Ruby on Rails, Java or similar.
* Experience with modern javascript development, including frameworks such as Vuejs, React or Angularjs.
* Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education and experience
* Management experience with direct reports
* In-depth knowledge of data-centric business applications
* Healthcare experience is a plus
* Intimately familiar project management skills
* Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
* Exceptional facilitator
* Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
* Proven ability to work independently with limited supervision and with other departmental personnel
* Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills
* Must be collaborative in driving decisions
* Must be "self-motivated" and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks
* Must be a "team-player" with the ability to work within collaborative environments
* Good listening skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types
* Ability to coach the team to reach their highest potential
* Passion to proactively seek ways to improve processes
* Self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position and can constructively resolve issues
* Creative, resourceful and innovative at tackling complex challenges (in a timely matter)
* Self-taught and self-teaching, with a demonstrated aptitude for acquiring knowledge and technical skills
* Organized and self-directing with the ability to identify priorities and mobilize projects in an orderly fashion to achieve desired results
* Respectful, professional interpersonal working style
* Approachable and willing to offer helpful solutions

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment. Medecision is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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