Sr. Manager, Tech Project-Program Mgmt - OnSite in Hartford, CT

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Program & Delivery Leadership:
  • Provide strategic oversight of delivery across multiple Agile teams or product areas, ensuring alignment to enterprise objectives, OKRs, and long term business goals
  • Oversee the creation and maintenance of multi team roadmaps, ensuring integration across platforms, systems, and partner organizations
  • Lead cross functional capacity, demand, and forecasting conversations to support predictable, sustainable multi team delivery
  • Govern portfolio level prioritization, ensuring unified backlogs, clear trade off discussions, and alignment with strategy and investment direction
  • Anticipate and manage systemic dependencies and risks, partnering with architecture and engineering leaders to address structural bottlenecks
  • Establish delivery governance models, KPIs, and dashboards that provide senior leadership with visibility into performance, flow, risks, and outcomes
  • Partner with senior stakeholders to resolve escalations, shape delivery approaches, and guide teams through ambiguity and complexity
• Cross Organizational Alignment & Executive Engagement
  • Represent delivery and engineering intent in executive forums, ensuring clear communication of progress, risks, strategies, and resource needs
  • Influence senior leaders across product, engineering, business operations, and architecture to drive alignment and shared ownership of outcomes
  • Lead major cross functional initiatives requiring coordination across multiple internal organizations and external partners
  • Serve as a connector across teams to strengthen collaboration, integration, and organizational cohesion
• AI First Leadership & Responsible Adoption:
  • Champion AI First culture change by modeling AI usage, setting expectations, and ensuring AI adoption aligns with enterprise strategy and governance
  • Sponsor AI upskilling for teams and leaders (eg, AI Literacy, AI Dojo, leadership enablement), ensuring talent is equipped to use AI confidently and responsibly
  • Lead the adoption of AI enabled operating models, guiding teams to integrate AI tools into planning, delivery, analysis, workflow redesign, and decision making
  • Establish responsible AI guardrails, ensuring compliance with enterprise ethical standards, risk frameworks, and data policies
  • Drive organizational modernization by enabling teams to use AI to redesign workflows, accelerate value delivery, and enhance decision quality across the portfolio

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• 12+ years in software engineering, product delivery, or technology leadership
• 7+ years of experience leading multiple teams or a delivery organization
• Experience leading teams and organizations through change, ambiguity, and modernization-including operating model, process, or platform transformation
• Demonstrated AI First Leader mindset: actively models responsible AI usage, sponsors enterprise AI learning programs, and drives AI enabled transformation across teams
• Proven success governing portfolio level delivery, including cross team prioritization, forecasting, and roadmap alignment
• Proven solid grounding in SDLC, multi team planning, integration management, and release coordination within complex ecosystems
• Demonstrated ability to identify and address systemic dependencies, risks, and architectural constraints
• Proven exceptional executive communication, stakeholder alignment, negotiation, and organizational leadership skills
• Ability to work in the office in Hartford, CT

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree
• Healthcare industry experience

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 to $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.  

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.