Mid-Level Project Manager / Product Lead

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5-7 years of experience, or a Masters degree plus 3 years of experience.
• TS/SCI required.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Agile software development methodologies, tools, and with the Product Owner role within the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Ability to identify key users and non-customer stakeholders, as well as to balancing the needs of all product stakeholders.
• Ability to synthesize requirements underlying feature requests and turn those into user stories and tasks for a product backlog.
• Experience grooming and prioritizing SCRUM team backlogs.
• Ability to coordinate product backlogs across development teams to effectively share subject matter experts, ensuring all product teams maintain velocity.
• Ability to analyze and recommend alternative technical and business approaches and facilitate engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.
• DevSecOps experience and knowledge of CI/CD tooling.
• Experience working with software and data engineers developing products integrating containerized environments.
• Experience working with software engineers and data scientists utilizing distributed computing environments for AI/ML and Big Data workloads, such as Apache Spark or Databricks.
• Well versed in modern software architectures like micro-services and current front-end frameworks used by the development teams.
• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving.

Major Duties/Tasks:

• Assist with planning, developing, testing, and documenting Search Portfolio products.
• Apply business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisition process/planning, and reengineering old methodologies and principles.
• Support agency teams in development and management of milestones, goals, and deliverables for each of the Search Portfolio products
• Coordinate and rationalizing technical efforts to support AI/ML enabled indexing, search, and augmented retrieval of unstructured data sets.
• Stay informed on latest AI system and software architectures and trends from design patterns to DevSecOps and systems architecture patterns.
• Develop plans, road maps, software design strategies.
• Capture, develop, and report reference architectures and documenting compliance standards.
• Work with mission teams to engage with potential customers within the DOD and identifies and evaluates prospective projects.

Synovix is an equal opportunity employer