Scrum Lead – Kanban, Agile and Rally

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

2:30 pm – 11 pm OR 3:30 pm – 1 am IST

Primary Responsibilities:

• Delivery Lead for global delivery team
  • Facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and team collaboration forums
  • Work closely with development team to actively drive the work forward, and remove impediments
  • Partner with Product Owner to ensure a backlog of refined and prioritized work is available for the team
  • Provide support for Agile release preparation and execution
  • Develop and maintain metrics that provide visibility to delivery progress and quality
  • Provide project management support as needed for team deliverables, and activities requiring coordination with other teams
• Drive increased Agile maturity on team
  • Provide direction and coaching for Agile team as needed
  • Evaluate and assess the teams’ strengths and opportunities
  • Work with team to identify, implement, and measure new and changed processes to increase agile adoption and throughput
• Capability Management support for products team develops
  • Partner with Product Owner and Technical Delivery Leads to support end-to-end capability management, including ensuring coordinated cross-team delivery
  • Identify and engage delivery partners from system and business teams, and drive cross-functional collaboration to support successful delivery
  • Ensure delivery alignment between all internal and external integration partners (upstream / downstream systems, and operational teams)
  • Drive development and execution of communication and training plans as needed
  • Identify and track operational readiness milestones as needed (eg: application support model developed and implemented, Help Desk knowledge and training developed and implemented)
• 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:

• Solid experience with Agile software delivery methodologies (Kanban, Scrum)
• Experience in software development environment
• Experience working with virtual, globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management experience
• Experience in Information Security / Identity Governance Administration
• Experience using Rally for Agile work management
• Knowledge of SailPoint identity management tools

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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