Technical Project Manager - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Richardson, TX

2d•Remote

About The Position

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. This role functions as the glue across technical teams, ensuring delivery, follow through, and completion of work across multiple initiatives. The Technical Project Manager owns day to day coordination, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution to ensure projects actually reach completion. This is a senior individual contributor role with no people management responsibilities. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. 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.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience managing multiple concurrent technology projects end to end, including planning, delivery tracking, risk/issue resolution, dependency coordination, and stakeholder communication
2+ years of hands on experience in infrastructure operations, platform engineering, SRE, or systems engineering
Working understanding of relevant technology security standards and ability to apply them across project activities
Solid proficiency in adapting PM methodologies, developing detailed plans, and driving projects through full delivery cycles
Demonstrated ability to independently manage projects with cross team dependencies and enterprise visibility
Demonstrated advanced risk and issue management skills, including quantification, decision impact analysis, and evaluation of mitigation effectiveness
Demonstrated solid problem solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex topics, validate assumptions, and incorporate feedback
Demonstrated quality focused and customer centric, able to balance business value, customer impact, and technical feasibility

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting infrastructure, platform, or application delivery teams in enterprise environments
Familiarity working in matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and dependencies

Responsibilities

Tailor and apply appropriate project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) to match project needs, team maturity, and delivery constraints
Build, manage, and maintain multiple detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, risks, resource requirements, and critical path activities to ensure projects reach completion
Drive delivery and follow through across cross functional technical teams
Interpret delivery metrics and recommend actions based on data; proactively surface options, trade offs, and adjustments for stakeholder decision making
Proactively identify, track, and drive resolution of risks, issues, and cross team dependencies, escalating as needed to protect timelines and outcomes
Facilitate structured communication with teams and stakeholders, adjusting messaging for audience, urgency, and context
Navigate organizational processes and relationships to resolve conflicts, influence alignment, and remove delivery blockers
Improve project quality by streamlining processes, identifying root cause patterns, and ensuring customer experience and business goals remain balanced
Build solid internal and partner stakeholder relationships through consistent delivery, collaborative planning sessions, and ongoing feedback loops
Support project financials by tracking estimates, forecasts, and variances
Provide visibility into financial impacts and delivery risks
Solid communication and organizational skills are critical
Ability to synthesize technical detail, drive alignment across teams, and provide clear, concise status to stakeholders
Maintain structure and momentum across competing priorities while ensuring commitments are met

Benefits

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.

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