Senior IT Project Manager - AI

UT MD Anderson is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead multiple AI initiatives across the full solution life cycle. This role involves partnering with various stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of AI products, utilizing project management methodologies to oversee project milestones and team collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Direct multiple AI initiatives across the full solution lifecycle, aligning projects with strategic objectives, timelines, and budgets
• Collaborate with stakeholders to transform business goals into detailed AI project plans, technical requirements, and clear milestones
• Define and manage project scope, schedules, and resource plans (personnel, technical, and financial)
• Adhere to institutional governance and project management standards, completing necessary documentation for reviews and approvals
• Provide regular status updates, escalate issues promptly, and maintain comprehensive project records
• Lead teams including data scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers, developers, and other key stakeholders; while driving continuous improvement
• Utilize Agile/Scrum, MLOps, DevOps, or comparable frameworks to ensure iterative development, continuous integration, and delivery of AI solutions
• Work closely with technical teams to document requirements, specifications, and design for system hardware, software, and architecture
• Engage customers and end users to validate system requirements, configurations, and testing outcomes, securing final acceptance for go-live
• Coordinate training for end users, ensure smooth handoff to production support, and manage change requests
• Guarantee compliance with relevant standards and maintain documentation to ensure compliance with institutional, state, and federal regulations
• Coordinates development/delivery of training for end-users and customer groups
• Coordinates development of production support model for the production system
• Define, prioritize, and coordinate the project teams tasks, providing feedback on performance and professional development
• Establish and maintain project budgets, oversee expenses, and inform management of budget status
• Mentor junior team members, fostering best practices in AI project delivery

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• Six years of experience to include five years in project management and five years in application and/or infrastructure services. May substitute required education degree with additional years of equivalent experience on a one-to-one basis. With a preferred degree four years of experience is required to include three years in project management and three years in application and/or infrastructure services
• Direct multiple AI initiatives across the full solution lifecycle, aligning projects with strategic objectives, timelines, and budgets
• Collaborate with stakeholders to transform business goals into detailed AI project plans, technical requirements, and clear milestones
• Define and manage project scope, schedules, and resource plans (personnel, technical, and financial)
• Adhere to institutional governance and project management standards, completing necessary documentation for reviews and approvals
• Provide regular status updates, escalate issues promptly, and maintain comprehensive project records
• Lead teams including data scientists, machine learning engineers, data engineers, developers, and other key stakeholders; while driving continuous improvement
• Utilize Agile/Scrum, MLOps, DevOps, or comparable frameworks to ensure iterative development, continuous integration, and delivery of AI solutions
• Work closely with technical teams to document requirements, specifications, and design for system hardware, software, and architecture
• Engage customers and end users to validate system requirements, configurations, and testing outcomes, securing final acceptance for go-live
• Coordinate training for end users, ensure smooth handoff to production support, and manage change requests
• Guarantee compliance with relevant standards and maintain documentation to ensure compliance with institutional, state, and federal regulations
• Define, prioritize, and coordinate the project teams tasks, providing feedback on performance and professional development
• Establish and maintain project budgets, oversee expenses, and inform management of budget status
• Mentor junior team members, fostering best practices in AI project delivery
• Master's Degree
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Ten years of experience to include five years in project management and five years in application and/or infrastructure services. Must have project management (large wide enterprise scale) experience in an IT environment, healthcare preferred
• Experience managing AI and Machine Learning, familiar with AI implementation projects