NHLBI BioData Catalyst Project Manager
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Project Manager to support the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The Project Manager will guide our team that is developing a new system to making it easier for researchers to find, access and use heart, blood, lung, and sleep data. This role requires an understanding Agile project tracking and planning and enabling teams to perform at their best. The Project Manager will have a strong understanding of project management, contract management and Agile methodologies to enable teams to create compelling software systems. You will be responsible for overseeing a team that is working across the software life-cycle. The application focus will be a new scientific application that searches for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data. You will work collaboratively with the team to best realize system solution. This role is fully remote!
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) and 7+ years of relevant experience
- Experience leading software development teams
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Ability to obtain and maintain a NIH's Public Trust
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in NIH environment; active NIH badge is a plus
- Experience managing federal contracts strongly preferred
- Experience working in the biomedical research domain
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Responsibilities
- Project planning and tracking
- Contract reporting
- Staff oversight and supervision
- Engage with other system owners and stakeholder to facilitate collaboration
- Collaborate with other team members to enable the teams to advance all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, and Testing)
- Collaborating with the team on Agile activities, including estimation, iterative planning and retrospectives
Benefits
- Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
- We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
