UnitedHealth Group - Senior Project Manager - DWH

Senior Project Manager - DWH

Discipline - Information Technology

Industry - IT Project Management

Job Description :

- The program manager is responsible for leading a Project Management and Scrum Master competency.

- This includes setting up a road map for the growth of the competency, driving the road map to execution interacting with the senior leadership across the organisation. Develop and implement long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the competency.

- Develop a evaluation framework to assess the strengths of the program and to identify areas for improvement.

- In addition to leading to competency should be responsible to work with individual- project managers and scrum masters to deliver the projects.

- The project manager has full responsibility and authority to complete the assigned project.

- Program manager will be overseeing the health of all the projects across ODM portfolio and ensuring Project Managers understand their key project metrics, all key deliverables, and will oversee any risks/issue and associated mitigation plans.

- Program manger will engage in regular forecating activities, and will be able to analyze any variances in their budgets, project and resource plans.

Scope :

- Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements.

- Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems.

- Solves moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analyses.

- Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks.

- Translates concepts into practice.

- Provides explanations and information to others on difficult issues.

- Experience using Agile SCRUM- Coaches, provide feedback, and guide others.

- Acts as a resource for others with less experience.

Specific Job Responsibilities :

Program Leadership :

- Leads and directs high-priority projects, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration and iteration with internal teams

- Presents program status and issues to stakeholders through formal presentations

- Conducts regular meetings with project teams to review the current status of the projects including technical, schedule, and- labor issues across the pillars- Oversees individual project forecasting activities

Project Management :

- Is responsible with managing projects from the Initiation phase of the SDLC through the Release phase of the OptumInsight SDLC.

- Ensures that the SDLC process is followed with reaching successful SDLC Compliance for each phase.

- Responsible for assigning resource responsibilities and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of the project.

- Manages the scope, risks, issues, deliverable, and schedule of individual project tasks.

- Attends committee meetings and provides project status updates

- Monitors team dynamic and team accountability related to delivery commitments

- Assigning project tasks and coordinate resources, including the review of escalating such issues as needed.

- Manages and ensures the TE Dashboard is kept up to date on a weekly basis

- Establishing and enforcing the use of the project Change Control Process

- Establishing and enforcing the use of the project