Senior Technical Project Manager – Radiology

Role Overview

• Own the XNAT project roadmap in coordination with engineering leadership and key stakeholders, translating strategic goals into actionable sprints and milestones.
• Plan, schedule, and track delivery across internal development teams and distributed open-source contributors using Agile and Kanban methodologies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively; drive resolution across engineering, product, and partner organizations.
• Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and cross-team stand-ups; maintain project health dashboards and status reports.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams across XNAT core platform, plugins, integrations, and community initiatives.
• Act as the primary operational point of contact for the XNAT open-source developer and user community.
• Coordinate contributions from external developers and institutional partners, managing pull request workflows, code review cycles, and contribution guidelines.
• Triage community-reported issues, feature requests, and bug reports; prioritize and route to appropriate team members.
• Organize and facilitate community calls, developer meetings, and user forums; represent XNAT at relevant conferences and workshops.
• Maintain contributor documentation including onboarding guides, coding standards, and governance policies.
• Own the XNAT release process end-to-end: versioning strategy, release branching, changelog management, packaging, and distribution.
• Maintain CI/CD pipeline health in coordination with DevOps; ensure release artifacts are reproducible and well-documented.
• Collaborate with the project director, engineering leads, and key institutional partners to define and refine the XNAT technical roadmap.
• Track industry trends in medical imaging informatics, DICOM standards, and AI/ML tooling to inform roadmap prioritization.
• Own the XNAT documentation strategy across technical and end-user content.
• Prepare progress reports, milestone summaries, and deliverable documentation for NIH, ARPA-H, and other federal and institutional funders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education.
• Seven years of experience in technical project management, program management, or a senior engineering leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing open-source software projects or large multi-stakeholder software initiatives.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices: Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, Git workflows, and release engineering.
• Exceptional written communication skills; proven ability to produce high-quality technical and end-user documentation.
• Experience writing reports and deliverable documentation for government or institutional funders (NIH, NSF, DoD, or equivalent).
• Ability to coordinate across geographically distributed teams with varying technical backgrounds.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels.

Benefits

• Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
• Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
• Free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
• Defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, starting at 7%.
• Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
• 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child.
• Tuition coverage for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.