Manager Technical Project Management

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

We are looking for a seasoned RTE (Release Train Engineer) who can:

• Identify program vision, goal and roadmap
• Identify program milestones
• Identify and manage application roadmap and milestones
• Identify business value deliverables
• Ensure application roadmap aligns to program roadmap
• Facilitate and manage prioritization of application roadmap
• Create and establish PI backlog in accordance with application roadmap / milestones
• Engage business / product stakeholders to identify and document requirements / use cases, acceptance criteria, testing scenarios
• Facilitate requirement reviews, solution design discussions, deep dive solutioning, test scenario review and test data requirements
• Foster engagement of various stakeholders – Product Owners, Product Managers, Solution Architects, System Analysts, Business / Product Analysts, Scrum team, Delivery leads) to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings such as SoS, Solution Reviews at the Program/Initiative Level (with PO, PM, SA, BO, Dev Leads, other impacted application RTEs)
• PI Planning: Facilitate PI Planning readiness by facilitating a continual grooming process which drives the development of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs
• Maintain a cross-product/application schedule
• Generate detailed project status reporting (including critical path impact, dependencies, milestones, resources, cost, work breakdown structures, etc.)
  
• Track the execution of features and capabilities
  
• Facilitate critical path delivery conversations including cross products and application dependency planning
  
• Manage risks and dependencies
  
• Escalate and track impediments
  
• Facilitate System/Solution Demos
  
• Deliver Business values to customers
  
• Leads cross-product initiatives that spans multiple domain / product / application and/or lead high complexity initiatives in support of a product
  
• Track program financials and ensure adherence to program and application budget
  
• Coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in Agile concepts and execution
  
• Assess the agile maturity level of the Scrum Teams and help them improve
  
• Ability to work seamlessly in a highly complex matrix environment
  
• Solid negotiation skills
  
• Setting Direction:
  
  • Establish & Communicate Enterprise Purpose; Facilitate execution of Program goals and objectives
    
  • Manage resources, Leverage technical & functional Skills
    
  • Define roles & responsibilities
    
• Managing The Work:
  
  • Managing Team or Operations & Processes, Managing Team & Filtering Out Noise
    
  • Solving Problems & Critical Thinking, Effectively Using Resources (funds, things, people)
    
  • Making Productive Decisions, Assuring Delivery of Outcomes At or Above Expectations
    
  • Creating Structures & Processes that Work Well
    
• Managing Engagement & Managing Team Culture:
  
  • Being Customer Centric, Working Collaboratively, Effectively Managing Conflict
    
  • Communicating Effectively & Respectfully
    
  • Creating & Maintaining an Engaging Mood & Tone
    
  • Fostering Innovative Initiatives, Creating Learning Agile Teams
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Engineering Degree
  
• 6+ years of IT Project Management experience 
• 4+ years of working with all aspects of System Development Life Cycle
  
• 4+ years of experience as Release Train Engineer and/or Scrum Master on a large Agile project

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP Certification
  
• Agile Certification
  
• Experience with CA Agile/Rally, Aha, and PPMO Optics
  
• Healthcare Industry experience 
• Proficiency with MS Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access)
  
• Proficiency with MS Project
  
• Proficiency with MS Visio

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.