We are seeking an ambitious, self-motivated person to join our growing team. This position will coordinate the activities of a software development team, working with product owners to create development plans, and ensure the development process enables the rapid delivery of custom solutions with high quality.
How you will make an impact as a Junior Software Project Manager:
- Responsible for breaking the roadmap into milestones, epics, and stories, maintain prioritized backlogs as projects evolve
- Coordinates activities of the software development team with other cross-functional teams (ie. Systems, V&V, Regulatory and Quality)
- Ensuring projects meet milestones and quality measures in a timely manner by quickly identifying and removing roadblocks, and contributing to project deliverables
- Contribute to the development of project-level documentation in support of Quality and Regulatory including project plans, requirements, technical design descriptions and cybersecurity deliverables
Skills you will need to be successful:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of experience in technical project leadership
- 3+ years hands on experience with cloud-native development (backend or full stack) and a solid understanding of distributed design for scalable solutions
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
- Knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
- Adept at refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques
- Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
About DEKA:
One hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development, where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKA’s brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. Here at DEKA, some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created, and new ideas are always welcome and explored.
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What We Do
DEKA is one of the leading research and development companies in the country and is the birthplace of some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time. For over thirty years, DEKA Research & Development Corp. has made Manchester, New Hampshire home. Located about an hour from Boston, the beach, and the mountains, we are situated in the beautiful and historic Amoskeag Millyard buildings located in downtown Manchester.
DEKA continues to be a place where no idea seems too big and where creativity and crazy cool gizmos reign supreme. The engineers, technicians, machinists, designers and all of the other folks who make up DEKA are some of the most creative and innovative professionals you could ever hope to meet. It's a place where one crazy idea can end up being the next greatest invention. At DEKA we embrace the spirit of innovation and constantly aim to turn the impossible into a reality.
DEKA is filled with people who are driven to be among the best and brightest in their field of work. It’s a concentrated bunch of really smart thinkers, doers and problems solvers, who are driven to using innovative design solutions and state-of-the-art technology to improve lives. We all see endless possibilities in the power of technology to do good. Employees have the opportunity to work on diverse projects that have a positive, enduring impact on millions of people worldwide. We are growing! We're always seeking passionate individuals to join our growing team of evolved thinkers.
