Technical Project Manager - Remote

Requisition Number: 2342750
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
This role functions as the glue across technical teams, ensuring delivery, follow through, and completion of work across multiple initiatives. The Technical Project Manager owns day to day coordination, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution to ensure projects actually reach completion. This is a senior individual contributor role with no people management responsibilities.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Primary 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

Financial & Delivery Accountability

• Support project financials by tracking estimates, forecasts, and variances
• Provide visibility into financial impacts and delivery risks
• Budget ownership and financial approvals remain at the program or leadership level

Communication & Organizational Acumen

• Solid communication and organizational skills are critical
• Ability to synthesize technical detail, drive alignment across teams, and provide clear, concise status to stakeholders
• Maintain structure and momentum across competing priorities while ensuring commitments are met

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:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.