Technical Project Lead

October 26

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Development Seed

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Open Data • Open Source • Mapping • Data Visualization • Remote Sensing

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

Description

• Coordinate between NASA stakeholders, project teams, program managers, and technical experts • Oversee the overall project scope, objectives, and timelines • Provide project direction to engineering teams and ensure they have the necessary resources and support • Represent Development Seed in forums and meetings with NASA and partners • Develop a shared understanding of success with our stakeholders and track that we achieve it • Build relationships with key stakeholders and leverage them for maximizing project outcome and long-term success

Requirements

• Experience in technical project or program management • Experience with natural sciences and research • Experience working on large-scale projects that involve collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including government agencies or other large organizations, contractors, and cross-functional teams • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team as well as independently • Work schedule in a US time zone, and willingness to travel to Huntsville, Alabama at least once a year and attend key events like the AGU annual meeting • Knowledge of software engineering principles and practices • A pragmatic sense towards agile development methodologies • Prior experience working as a software engineer (Nice to Have) • Experience with implementing project management tooling and processes (Nice to Have) • Familiarity with our partner organizations in the cloud-native geospatial space like Pangeo Forge, Microsoft Planetary Computer, AWS Open Data, Google Earth Engine, Earthmover, Carbonplan, 2i2c (Nice to Have) • Activity in relevant open source tech communities and conferences like Pangeo, ESIP, IGARSS, FOSS4G, AGU (Nice to Have)