UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.
Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.
Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?
Senior IT Project Manager - Colorado Springs, CO-315075
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Description Ingenix is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
If you get excited about the life transforming potential of bringing health care information to the right place, at the right time, to support crucial decisions, welcome to Ingenix.
We're one of the largest and fastest growing health information companies and the only organization in our industry with the information, technology and consulting expertise to solve the most significant challenges in health and human services.
As a vital member of the UnitedHealth Group family, we serve customers in every segment of the health care field. This includes government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health delivery networks, insurance providers and, of course, the diverse business divisions of UnitedHealth Group.
Senior IT Project Manager - Colorado Springs, CO
Position Description:
This person will be in a project management role that will involve working cross functionally with product teams, engineering teams, and support teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Meet with product management, understand status of any potential scope updates, exchange information regarding changes to product roadmap, update on tasks necessary to go to market, resources for those tasks, timing of those tasks
- Meet with engineering team, assess technical status against plan, identify impediments, appropriate actions to resolve, appropriate personnel to perform resolution
- Meet with support, team leadership, triage support issues and work into current project schedule
- Create change board tickets for upcoming production environment changes, represent ticket at board meeting
- Review risk assessment - any new risks? Any risks more probably than they were formally? Status of mitigation activities.
- Ensure detailed release end game plan exists for hotfixes, upcoming releases
- Monitor release end game activities, ensure flow of time critical activities between team members
- Meet with Launch team, assess tasks preparing for major release, readiness to go to market
- Meet with Support team, assess tasks preparing the support team for supporting the product, ensure any dependencies on the technical team for documentation and training information is worked into the technical plan
- Update status reports to engineering and finance as required
- Proactively prepare for the next release, work with product management and analysts to prepare requirements, specs and other information necessary to kick off planning in a timely fashion
- Review new requirements and specs as they emerge, furthering understanding of what is being implemented
- Review technical infrastructure, gaining understanding of the environment in which the product operates
Bring your talent to an industry leader with the information, technology, and consulting expertise to help transform health and human services. No matter what your role, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. Qualifications Qualifications:
Requirements:
- Proven leadership, mediation and facilitation skills - particularly in matrixed and cross-departmental teams, ability to lead without positional authority
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Demonstrated capability to get results in a complex, often ambiguous environment
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Proven ability to identify and resolve barriers to effective program and project management
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Demonstrated team building skills
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Demonstrated mentoring and educating ability
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Outstanding oral and written communication skills
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Ability to drive organizational change at the team level
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Ability to establish trust and credibility
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5+ years Project or Program Management Experience in a matrixed environment
- 3+ years Experience in a Commercial Application Development Environment
- 5+ years Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Experience
- 5+ years MS Project or equivalent experience
- 2+ years technical leadership experience
Assets:
- PMP Certification
- Bachelor's Degree in a science or technology related field
- MBA
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. All candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. |
