Technical Project Manager - Remote

Optum is a global leader in health care innovation, developing solutions to enhance health systems. The Technical Project Manager will coordinate teams, manage project delivery, and ensure effective communication across initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Tailor and apply appropriate project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) to match project needs, team maturity, and delivery constraints
• Build, manage, and maintain multiple detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, risks, resource requirements, and critical path activities to ensure projects reach completion
• Drive delivery and follow through across cross functional technical teams
• Interpret delivery metrics and recommend actions based on data; proactively surface options, trade offs, and adjustments for stakeholder decision making
• Proactively identify, track, and drive resolution of risks, issues, and cross team dependencies, escalating as needed to protect timelines and outcomes
• Facilitate structured communication with teams and stakeholders, adjusting messaging for audience, urgency, and context
• Navigate organizational processes and relationships to resolve conflicts, influence alignment, and remove delivery blockers
• Improve project quality by streamlining processes, identifying root cause patterns, and ensuring customer experience and business goals remain balanced
• Build solid internal and partner stakeholder relationships through consistent delivery, collaborative planning sessions, and ongoing feedback loops
• Support project financials by tracking estimates, forecasts, and variances
• Provide visibility into financial impacts and delivery risks
• Maintain structure and momentum across competing priorities while ensuring commitments are met

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience managing multiple concurrent technology projects end to end, including planning, delivery tracking, risk/issue resolution, dependency coordination, and stakeholder communication
• 2+ years of hands on experience in infrastructure operations, platform engineering, SRE, or systems engineering
• Working understanding of relevant technology security standards and ability to apply them across project activities
• Solid proficiency in adapting PM methodologies, developing detailed plans, and driving projects through full delivery cycles
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage projects with cross team dependencies and enterprise visibility
• Demonstrated advanced risk and issue management skills, including quantification, decision impact analysis, and evaluation of mitigation effectiveness
• Demonstrated solid problem solving and critical thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex topics, validate assumptions, and incorporate feedback
• Demonstrated quality focused and customer centric, able to balance business value, customer impact, and technical feasibility
• Experience supporting infrastructure, platform, or application delivery teams in enterprise environments
• Familiarity working in matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy