Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with 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 reliable. There’s no room for error. Join us and start doing your life’s best work. (sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as Project Manager/Release Train Engineer for multiple strategic data platform applications, managing agile best practices across multiple delivery teams

• Ensure cross-team coordination

• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing

• Communicate status and issues to stakeholders and varying levels of the organization

• Ensure that our ways of working are consistent across the teams

• Fulfill key workstream management responsibilities to include project time tracking, financial management and budgeting, project health reporting, and risk management

• Take responsibility for managing dependencies between our team and third parties, release managers, or between our team and other scrum teams

• Work is generally self-directed and not prescribed

• Address issues that are typically less structured, more complex

• Serve as a resource to others

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 or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of IT experience

• 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager

• 3+ years of experience as an Agile Practitioner

• Experience overseeing large technology delivery initiatives

• Familiar with the iterative development process

• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures

• Previous background with agile methodologies, practices and tools

• Understanding of agile concepts such as backlog tracking, burn down metrics, velocity, and task definition

• You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting or other company location.

• Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained.

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)

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.

Job Keywords: Agile Practitioner 2, Eden Prairie, MN, Minnesota