Technical Project Manager III, (Temporary)

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

 

The Chief Data Officer of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Jeff Leek, established the Fred Hutch Data Science Lab (DaSL) to develop and support the overall data strategy for the organization. The mission of the Data Science Lab to ensure an effective data ecosystem at Fred Hutch by developing a modern, well documented, well implemented, overall data strategy. This should serve the needs and capabilities of those leveraging data at Fred Hutch regardless of “where they live” from the clinic to the research groups. We believe focusing on people is critical in building a strong, dynamic community united around using data to improve human health and cancer care. To do this, we aim to build a diverse, hybrid team that is inclusive, open, collaborative, and supportive both within our team and with our collaborators (find more about our values and culture). We are strong advocates for open science and reproducible research, thus develop our work in the open as much as possible. We rely heavily on written communication and continuous collaboration in order to support our hybrid team, as well as make our work as accessible as scalably and sustainably as possible by Fred Hutch staff.Responsible for managing and driving technical teamwork for the Data Science Lab Technical Team, in alignment with the Data Science Lab technical team product priorities.

 

This position will act as Scrum Master, supporting the breakdown of work into tasks and stories, working with the team to set estimates, facilitate necessary scrum ceremonies, and align with product managers for priorities within the technical work. This position reports to the Data Product Management Team Lead and works closely with the technical team and product managers to drive product features to delivery.

 

This is a temporary role and will have the opportunity to work partially at our campus and remotely.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the execution and adoption of Scrum ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, retrospectives, and reviews/demos.
• Support and coach the technical team through agile and scrum practices.
• Eliminates impediments for the team by engaging the right stakeholders within the organization.
• Support the product managers in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a health team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.
• Work with product managers to develop and present sprint level reports (e.g., burnups, cumulative flows, velocity charts) to analyze and assess team capacity and resourcing.
• Ensure work implemented by teams adhere to the steps and procedures as outlined within the definition of done (DoD) framework.
• Document project work, participating in story/epic development, and ensuring current and well-maintained documentation.
• Works across departmental groups to manage work on feature development for cross-institutional products and projects.
• Coaches and mentors technical project managers about agile project management.
• Works with multiple stakeholders across the institution to ensure sprint reviews are effective.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degre