UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Agile Practitioner 4 – Telecommute at Eden Prairie, Minnesota Full Time

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that’s improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn’t about another gadget, it’s about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There’s no room for error. Join us and start doing your life’s best work.(sm)

The Senior Agile Portfolio leader will support a portfolio of Agile Products/programs within Optum Tech that have enterprise level dependencies across multiple IT segments.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• An agile servant leader/partner that is involved in Planning & tracking of operational support for a portfolio of Technology products ($50-$100M) and services

• Maintains a broad and sound understanding of products and product family association (taxonomy) and department alignment to track expenses/revenue, partnering with Product Ops, finance teams.

• Owns supporting capital and opex planning for labor, infra and non-cap (tech)

• Accountable for forecasting/tracking the labor (FTE) for all products/depts in portfolio

• Including capex and opex labor

• Understands current capacities (by product/dept) and growth (FTE) and how it is balanced to target budgets (agreed with business segments)

• Tracks trends in hiring and attrition in the portfolio (by product/dept)

• Has a good understanding of how a product P&L is tracked (expenses – labor, infra, NCT, vendor & revenues – chargebacks, ISA’s)

• Partners with product, engineering & segment finance to align budgets to workforce plans

• Works as single point contact/enabler for all hiring decisions/approvals representing the portfolio, with EAIP req. governance

• backed by budgets, workforce forecasting, portfolio priorities and current dept capacities

• Is accountable for maintaining quality (all ins/outs) of workforce roster, capacity metrics in the departments (products)

• Has a good understanding all product P&L in the portfolio and decisions around growth, maintain, shrink strategies (for each product)

• Supports Initiation phases of programs/products including capital & technology committee presentations for the program

• Facilitate/Participates in the development of Architecture & delivery strategy

• Facilitate ongoing key stake holder communication between Product, Finance & Delivery teams

• Manage/Coach a team of program managers and agile practitioners (RTE, Scrum Masters)

• Flex to facilitate scrum as required on new leadership engagements (ad-hoc and tactical)

• Keep a quality check of workforce plans (rosters) for all products and ensure good guidance is provided on forecasting growth, department alignment of capacity/req’s, levelling etc.

• Understand and support Agile measures tracking/reporting for the portfolio

• Identify the key stake holders, manage the relationships/expectations of key stakeholders

• Support weekly/monthly status reporting to key stake holders

• Participate and be catalyst for process improvements in Agile Practitioner, Workforce, budget forecasting functions

• Change Management : Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches

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 applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience in Information Systems Development, with hands on technology or delivery experience

• 5+ years of Technical Project Management experience in a large enterprise environment (Fortune 200)

• 5+ years of experience directly supervising a team of 5-10 FTE in similar function

• Experience managing a portfolio of $20M-$50M or 100-400 FTE’s Portfolio

• Solid Agile/Scrum working experience

• Solid analytical, problem-solving and financial analysis skills

• Solid financial forecasting/tracking and workforce planning skills

• Experience in supporting program capital management life cycle

• Good understanding of product P&L tracking

• Ability to build and manage relationships across a large enterprise

• Agile Scrum and Professional PM methodology trained

• C-level interface and presentation skills

• Ability to influence decisions from top down or bottoms up

• Skilled in MS office suite (Excel, MS Presentations )

• Proficiency in computer software eg: Rally (CA Agile), CA Clarity (PPM Optics) or MS Project

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agile (SAFe) Scrum certifications

• Experience in the agile maturity transformation of teams eg: CICD, ATDD, Dev Ops and Test automation

• PMP Certification

• Health care insurance background

• Process implementation & re-engineering

• Good understanding of Cloud technologies & architecture

• Developing & tracking strong business cases & cost benefit analysis

• Big 4 or Professional Services experience

UnitedHealth Group requires all new hires and employees to report their COVID-19 vaccination status.

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people’s lives. This is where it’s happening. This is where you’ll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We’re freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it’s needed. We’re creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life’s best work.(sm)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $110,200 to $211,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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

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