eAPI Project Manager

Akima Data Management (ADM) is a company providing solutions for better systems and methods in Enterprise IT. They are seeking an IT Project Manager to oversee their Enterprise API projects, focusing on maintaining schedules, managing customer expectations, and ensuring effective communication across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Master Scheduling: Develop and maintain detailed project schedules (using MS Project, Smartsheet, or Jira), ensuring all tasks, milestones, and dependencies are accurately tracked and up-to-date
• Sprint Coordination: Facilitate scheduling for sprint ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retrospectives) and ensure the team adheres to the agreed-upon cadence
• Resource Planning: Coordinate with technical leads to ensure resources are allocated correctly in the project plan and identify potential scheduling conflicts early
• Status Reporting: Generate and distribute weekly executive status reports, highlighting progress, budget burn rates, and upcoming milestones
• Governance: Ensure all project artifacts (charters, risk logs, decision logs) are maintained in accordance with PMO standards
• Meeting Management: Organize and facilitate project meetings, capture detailed meeting minutes, and rigorously follow up on action items to ensure closure
• Primary Liaison: Act as the main point of contact for business stakeholders and internal customers, fielding requests and providing updates on project status
• Expectation Management: Manage scope creep by clearly communicating timeline impacts to customers when requirements change
• Communication Bridge: Translate updates from the technical team into clear, business-friendly language for stakeholders
• Risk Log: Maintain an active Risk and Issue Register. Your focus is on tracking these items and ensuring owners are assigned, rather than solving the technical issues yourself
• Blocker Removal: Proactively identify administrative or logistical blockers (e.g., access rights, licensing, meeting availability) that are slowing down the technical team and work to resolve them

Requirements:

• 4-6+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager
• Expert-level proficiency in scheduling and reporting tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to impose order on complex projects through rigorous documentation and follow-up
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting status reports to leadership
• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Management, or a related field
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is strongly preferred
• Must be a US citizen and/or green card holder and be able to obtain Public Trust clearance
• General familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Previous experience working in an environment involving integration, middleware, or data teams (exposure to the vocabulary is helpful, even if deep technical understanding is not)
• Prior FDA experience preferred