[Hiring] Senior Technical Project Manager @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of technical initiatives across infrastructure, cloud, and platform programs, ensuring milestones are met and outcomes align to enterprise standards.
• Drive execution across cross‑functional teams, coordinating delivery leads, SMEs, and dependency owners.
• Manage delivery risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies; proactively escalate and resolve blockers.
• Own dependency validation and tracking across AE DC workstreams.
• Partner with delivery teams to resolve execution issues using standardized issue management and escalation processes.
• Ensure dependencies are clearly documented, validated with SMEs, and aligned to downstream roadmap.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise updates for leadership, highlighting progress, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Utilize AI during meetings to capture decisions, action items, and risks, translating outputs into actionable next steps and updates for stakeholders.
• Partner with workstream leads and SMEs to use AI‑generated insights to support data‑driven decision‑making and prioritization.
• Use AI to generate, refine, and maintain delivery artifacts, including status reports, program plans, timelines, and dependency mappings.
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 4+ years of experience in technical project or program management.
• 3+ years of proven experience delivering complex, cross‑functional technology initiatives.
• 3+ years of experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• 2+ years of experience with dependency management, risk management, and delivery governance.
• 1+ years of experience working across infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise technology environments.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot or equivalent) to support technical project planning, architectural discussions, dependency mapping, and delivery execution.
• Apply AI to synthesize inputs from logs, monitoring outputs, metrics, and project data to anticipate delivery risks, capacity constraints, and sequencing issues.
• Critically review and validate AI-generated technical content to ensure correctness, feasibility, and alignment with engineering and security standards.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to responsibly integrate AI into delivery workflows and technical decision-making.
• Proven use of AI to accelerate creation and maintenance of technical artifacts such as project plans, RAID logs, migration checklists, runbooks, change documents, and post‑implementation reviews.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting AE integrations, data center exits, or large‑scale infrastructure programs.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to enhance delivery execution and reporting.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Incentive and recognition programs.
• Equity stock purchase.
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).