AmSC Project Manager

• Must be eligible for a federal security clearance (U.S. citizen)
• Can be remote

AmSC Project Manager

Role Overview

The American Science Cloud (AmSC) is a federated, AI-enabled platform unifying DOE's experimental facilities, data resources, and computing into a single, interoperable infrastructure. We are seeking a Project Manager to drive strategic alignment, lead complex technical initiatives, and exercise leadership authority to overcome governance and delivery blockers.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of project management experience, deep expertise in Agile/Scrum, is comfortable with directly interacting with software development and infrastructure teams, and has experience managing initiatives in hybrid cloud and platform engineering environments. This is a 12 to 18-month contract position with the potential for transition to full-time employment.

Key Responsibilities

• Reporting & Briefings: Prepare and deliver formal project status reports, health metrics, and briefings to the Project Leadership team.
• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Drive the resolution of project-level risks and issues. Act with the authority to escalate governance and facility blockers to leadership to force necessary decisions, leveraging strong documentation and requirements gathering/analysis skills to bridge critical gaps.
• Quality Assurance: Champion quality standards and drive accountability across cross-functional teams to guarantee the timely delivery of all project milestones.
• Review Coordination: Drive, lead, and own the planning, execution, and oversight of critical project reviews, audits, and key milestones to ensure alignment and operational excellence.
• Integration Oversight: Track integration testing milestones in coordination with technical teams to ensure services operate effectively across multiple facility sites.
• Workflow & Sprint Support: Partner with Release Managers and Scrum Masters to support workflow management, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release planning activities in alignment with project delivery objectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive, lead, and own communication and alignment across technical development teams, scientific stakeholders, researchers, and leadership to ensure software development efforts fulfill program objectives, technical requirements, and user needs.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience: Five or more years of project management experience leading software development, cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or scientific computing initiatives.
• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional communication skills and demonstrated background leading large teams of technical and research professionals to complete complex technical deliverables.
• Technical Background: Prior experience as a software developer, software engineer, systems engineer, platform engineer, or in a related technical engineering role.
• Methodologies: Strongly demonstrated application of Agile methodologies, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, stakeholder management, communications, risk management, and project reporting.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain Knowledge & Technical Initiatives: Systems/Business Analyst background. Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps initiatives, hybrid cloud environments, HPC, AI/ML platforms, or scientific computing environments.
• Research Environment Experience: Experience working alongside scientists, researchers, research computing organizations, national laboratories, universities, or other research-focused environments.
• Advanced Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Agilist, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Technical Background: Prior experience as a software developer, software engineer, systems engineer, platform engineer, or in a related technical engineering role.