Technical Software Project Manager

We are seeking an ambitious, self-motivated Technical Software Project Manager to join our growing team in a hands-on leadership role that goes beyond traditional project coordination. This position requires directing integrated software development teams across both controls and application layers, working alongside Software and Controls Leads to unify these components into cohesive deliverables while actively contributing to engineering efforts.  

How you will make an impact as a Technical Software Project Manager: 

• You will be responsible for breaking project roadmaps into milestones, epics, and stories, maintaining prioritized backlogs, and coordinating activities across cross-functional teams including Systems, Hardware, Cloud, Test, and Quality. 
• Ensuring deliverables meet milestones and quality measures by quickly identifying and removing roadblocks while maintaining design control and compliance with quality systems. 
• You will contribute to project-level documentation including project plans, requirements, technical design descriptions, test reports, and cybersecurity deliverables, while collaborating with internal organizations such as mechanical, controls, manufacturing engineering, quality, regulatory, and legal to enable complex product releases. 
• You will serve as an unbiased source of truth for projects you drive, providing efficient communication of status and risks while ensuring decisions and downstream implications are clearly communicated.  
• Use your software background to contribute to technical design and implementation, triage and resolve complex system issues, and diagnose systemic obstacles that prevent teams from delivering high-quality software. 

Skills you will need to be successful: 

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 2+ years of technical project leadership experience.  NPD/R&D knowledge is preferred.  
• 3+ years hands-on involvement in either controls/embedded software or application development (concept through release experience is a bonus). 
• Technical understanding of products with integrated hardware and software, utilizing programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, and C/C++, real-time embedded Linux environments, RTOS development, distributed messaging systems, Docker containerization, PostgreSQL database management, Protocol Buffers, and React development for data-rich interfaces. 
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills, with proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and MS Project to elicit requirements, define scope, and guide development. 
• Knowledge of traditional project management principles and Agile frameworks.   
• This role requires the ability to work in highly complex technology environments with rapidly changing requirements, building strong relationships, and coordinating cross-functional collaboration. High energy, drive, commitment, self-initiative, and perseverance are required, with a demonstrated track record of personal technical accomplishments and a passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems while driving high-quality, innovative, and robust technical solutions. 

About DEKA:
One hour from the beach, Boston, and the mountains, the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research and Development, where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKA’s brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering, design, and manufacturing. Here at DEKA, some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created, and new ideas are always welcome and explored.