Highmark Health is looking for a Technical Project Manager to bridge the gap between Product Strategy and Engineering Execution, focusing on managing technical delivery risk, project planning, resolving cross-team architectural/infrastructure dependencies, and ensuring the timely delivery of complex product and technology solutions, particularly those involving AI/ML.
Requirements
- Past hands-on experience in a development role (Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or similar), or managing teams with direct exposure to code and system design.
- Ability to manager projects utilizing AI and specific cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, etc)
- Technical literacy in system architecture; must be able to read and discuss system design documents, sequence diagrams, and API specifications.
- Proficiency in communicating and prioritizing non-functional requirements, such as performance, scalability, and security, alongside functional requirements.
- Proven ability to proactively identify, mitigate, and efficiently resolve complex cross-team dependencies* and architectural bottlenecks while balancing trade-offs between scope, technical debt, and delivery schedules.
Responsibilities
- Applies expertise in software development methodologies, modern systems architecture, and the AI/ML lifecycle to drive complex product and technology solutions.
- Managing technical delivery risk, Project planning, resolving cross team architectural/infrastructure dependencies, and ensuring the timely delivery of the solution.
- Leveraging a strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure on-time, high-quality, and high-value delivery for our customers.
- Serve as a project leader for the definition, planning, and delivery of multiple large-scale product and technology projects, working with the executive sponsor (Director or higher) and other management as required to ensure achievement of the defined project goals.
- Receive high risk, visible efforts, must take a lead role in the successful delivery and implementation of cross-functional activities to achieve the desired results for a defined program and/or strategic initiative.
- Drive the day-to-day operation of projects (including budgetary oversight and staffing) ensuring that all projects are reliably delivered on time, on budget and with a consistently high standard of quality.
- Collaborate with all project stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate project risks with frequent reevaluation and reprioritization of the risk register.
Other
- 5 years in Project Management
- 5 years delivering business solutions using information technology
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills including experience with conflict resolution.
- Ability to pull together a group of people with diverse skills and make a functional team
- Customer-first mindset. Skilled at anticipating customers' needs and the ability to build relationships that enable collaboration among all stakeholders and vendors
