Manager Technical project
Engagement & Project Overview:
- Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements
- Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems
- Solves moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analyses
- Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
- Translates concepts into practice
- Provides explanations and information to others on difficult issues
- Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others
- Acts as a resource for others with less experience
Primary Responsibilities:
- Track project progress and assess risk
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure proper strategy, plan, alignment, integration and visibility
- Foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups – act in a single voice
- Maintain solid collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Tracks and manages sprint and release readiness; maintains feature and user story data quality
- Actively participates and ensure team participation in scrum events (Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Retrospective, Sprint review, Backlog Refinement)
- Promotes health of the team by creating positive and sustainable pace of delivery Develops an understanding of the Product and ensures team has understanding of Product
- Develop, coach, and mentor team members to advance their skills and career
- Be a change agent and foster a “learn by doing” environment
- Proven track record of leading complex projects
- 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:
- Certified Scrum Master or equivalent Agile certification
- 10+ years leading large, complex technology projects
- 7+ years of experience in Agile delivery
- 5+ years of scrum master experience
- 5+ years of experience leading and influencing several teams (developers, POs, peers)
- 3+ years of experience in devOps or lean agile experience
- Experience with Agile development
- Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
- Proven solid facilitation and presentation skills
- Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven excellent communication, collaboration, team building and relationship building skills
- Proven ability to lead and influence large teams Proven ability to communicate technology matters to business
- partners, senior executives, and strategic partners
Preferred Qualifications:
- Facilitation certification
- Advanced Agile certifications Experience in enterprise-level transformations or complex environments
- Technical background or experience in software development
- Proficiency in CA Agile and AHA
- Financial forecasting and monitoring
- Release management
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.
Additional Job Detail Information
Requisition Number 2269792
Business Segment Optum
Employee Status Regular
Travel No
Country: IN
Overtime Status Exempt
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Telecommuter Position No
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