Senior Project Manager – Business Analysis or Agile

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.

On the one hand, no industry is moving faster than health care. On the other, no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward than Optum and UnitedHealth Group. That’s what makes this opportunity so applause worthy. We have hundreds of business verticals across our matrixed organizations that are bringing thousands of new ideas, services and products to the marketplace every year. Our goal is simple. Use data and technology to help drive change and make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Project Manager, you’ll be engaged in a complex business model that is highly adaptable to build solutions that meet their customer needs in a competitive and effective way.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand business problems, gather requirements, and demonstrate tools, solutions and analysis
• Coordinate with stakeholders for backlog refinement and sprint planning
• Gather and document business requirements in capabilities and features
• Analyze, document, and improve processes and practices
• Planning and allocation of resources to the various projects and/or tasks
• Work with a cross-functional scrum team in prioritization, planning, design, development, and release of features and functionality
• Create and manage all story and feature writing and prioritization for the scrum team
• Works with multiple teams to promote an environment of continuous improvement and innovation, particularly with respect to DevOps (e.g., automation, cross-functional teams, active monitoring), coaching others in conducting in-depth conversations regarding obstacles and opportunities
• Works with leadership to support demand/capacity management/forecasting for multiple teams/products (e.g., velocity, high-level estimations, release planning)
• Implement PI planning events and monitoring their progress
• Lead a team of 20 Business analysts 
• Assesses performance, rewards result, motivates, and fosters matrix management
• 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

This role will challenge your ability to work on complex projects where deadlines and scope shift frequently. You’ll need flexibility, agility and the ability to adapt to change while maintaining solid relationships with stakeholders in a highly cross-matrixed environment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in Agile program management or a similar role
• 10+ years of experience with Agile tools (Rally, JIRA, Aha, Confluence etc.) and practices
• 5+ years of experience of managing a team of 20+ FTEs
• Experience in product/capability management, business or systems analysis, and/or business architecture involving technology; inclusive of developing strategy and roadmap(s)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe
• Proven excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Certified Agile Coach 

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.

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