Senior Technical Project Consultant

Optum India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,200,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum India seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager in Bengaluru to drive complex initiatives across teams, ensuring on‑time, on‑budget delivery. The role requires navigating both waterfall and agile methods, leading stakeholders, and delivering results with strong MS Office 365 and collaboration tool proficiency.

You'll manage cross‑functional resources, align with policies, and mentor junior staff while communicating clearly with customers and senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on project management experience.
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage key stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with customers and leadership.
• Proven leadership and conflict resolution abilities.

Responsibilities

• Comply with all applicable company policies, procedures, and directives, including changes to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements.

Skills

Project management

Waterfall & Agile

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical & organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Org. Management, PM, CS or related

Tools

MS Office 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)

Azure

Microsoft Office

Teams

SharePoint

Project

Job description

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibility

• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering, Business, Org. Management, Project Management, Computer Science, or related)
• 8+ years of hands‑on project management experience
• Experience managing projects in both waterfall and agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban frameworks
• Substantial experience and working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint & Project
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 - Teams, Sharepoint, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, and Outlook are a must. Azure is a plus
• Proven exceptional analytical and organizational skills, including a proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment
• Proven ability to manage key stakeholders while managing competing priorities
• Demonstrated solid leadership skills including conflict/issue resolution
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written with customers, stakeholders, and senior leadership
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with project resources across multiple departments

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification (highly preferred - candidates without get lowest priority)
• Additional agile certifications include, in order of importance:
  • Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO-I)
• ServiceNow experience

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 enable and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes ‑ an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.