IT Project Manager- Software & Cloud Engineering

Why Cadre5?

Working with highly talented team members
Paid over-time
3 weeks' vacation
Excellent medical insurance

Major Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, sprint plans, release schedules, resource plans, and project reporting for multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Serve as Scrum Master and Agile project leader for software development, cloud, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning activities.
• Lead and coordinate software development initiatives supporting the American Science Cloud and related scientific computing programs.
• Partner closely with software engineers, platform engineers, cloud architects, scientists, and researchers to prioritize and deliver software capabilities supporting advanced scientific research and AI-enabled discovery.
• Facilitate communication and alignment between technical development teams, scientific stakeholders, researchers, and leadership to ensure software development efforts meet program objectives, technical requirements, and user needs.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and accomplishments to project sponsors, ORNL leadership, technical staff, and external partners.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues while developing mitigation strategies and corrective actions.
• Aid with project budgeting, forecasting, staffing plans, and resource allocation activities.
• Prepare dashboards, executive briefings, status reports, and presentations that communicate project health, delivery progress, and program outcomes.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Five or more years of project management experience, including experience leading Agile technology projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing software development, cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or scientific computing initiatives.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, stakeholder management, communications, risk management, and project reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience as a software developer, software engineer, systems engineer, platform engineer, or related technical engineering role.
• Five or more years of experience managing software development, platform engineering, infrastructure, or technology-focused projects.
• Experience managing Agile software development teams utilizing Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar methodologies in cloud, hybrid cloud, or platform engineering environments.
• Experience working with scientists, researchers, research computing organizations, national laboratories, universities, or other research-focused environments is highly desirable.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps initiatives, hybrid cloud environments, HPC, AI/ML platforms, or scientific computing programs.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and related project management tools.