Cambium Learning - Dallas, TX
posted about 2 months ago
As a Senior Technical Project Manager I at Cambium Learning Inc, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating people and processes to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and meet the desired outcomes. This position requires a qualified and energetic project manager who can help maintain our status as an innovative authority in the online testing industry. The ideal candidate will have a background in software development management, which is essential for understanding the complexities of the projects you will oversee. In this role, you will be responsible for creating both long- and short-term plans, setting targets for milestones, and adhering to deadlines. You will delegate tasks to team members who are best positioned to complete them, manage a project backlog, and conduct regular two-week sprints in Jira. Your dynamic presence will be crucial during daily scrum calls, ensuring that developers and QA teams understand their deliverables for the day. You will also set up meetings and checkpoints to resolve questions and allow developers to discuss problems in a smaller setting. As an advocate for our clients and end users, you will ensure that their needs are met with each code change. This involves generating Jira tickets from meeting notes, organizing them logically for developers, and maintaining synergy among multiple teams involved in the same project. Your responsibilities will include establishing and maintaining relationships with third parties and vendors, communicating with internal teams to keep projects aligned with their goals, and working with QA engineers to perform quality control throughout development. You will be expected to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work well under tight timelines, and create comprehensive project documentation. Additionally, you will lead the overall delivery of large-scale engineering projects, ensuring that delivery standards and best practices are utilized throughout the project lifecycle. You will drive key technical choices, proactively manage risks, and troubleshoot production runtime issues. Your participation in production deployments will also be essential to the success of our projects. This role is critical in ensuring that Cambium Assessment continues to deliver advanced online testing solutions that impact educators and students positively.