Senior Technical Project Consultant

UnitedHealth Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,900,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to guide teams through product delivery and engineering practices. You will mentor teams, remove blockers, and foster collaboration across product, technology, and operations.

The role emphasizes leadership and empowering teams to decide and deliver value within company policies and flexible work arrangements. Join us to help improve health outcomes by enabling efficient, patient-focused care through continuous improvement and

Qualifications

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience.
• Understand product engineering processes and product management concepts; coach teams.
• Proven well-versed in Agile techniques, frameworks, and practices.

Responsibilities

• Coach teams on Agile principles, frameworks, and product delivery practices.
• Build relationships across product, technology, operations, and business teams.
• Remove impediments and improve team effectiveness.
• Facilitate collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Drive predictable and sustainable product delivery.
• Act as change agents, mentors, facilitators, and team builders.
• Drive continuous improvement for the team, organization, enterprise, and self.
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Product management concepts

Leadership

Coaching / mentoring

Team facilitation

Education

Graduate degree or equivalent experience

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 Responsibilities:

• Coach teams on Agile principles, frameworks, and product delivery practices
• Build relationships across product, technology, operations, and business teams
• Remove impediments and improve team effectiveness
• Facilitate collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Help delivery organizations become more self-sufficient over time
• Act as change agents, coaches, mentors, facilitators, and team builders
• Drive predictable and sustainable product delivery
• Team handling
• Facilitate difficult discussions and create transparency across teams
• Build collaborative team cultures and psychologically safe environments
• Remove impediments and help teams improve delivery effectiveness
• Act as a change agent who continuously seeks better ways of working
• Build relationships across business, product, technology, and operations partners
• Drive continuous improvement for the team, organization, enterprise, and self
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• Understand product engineering processes and product management concepts. Coach and mentor teams and individuals
• Proven well-versed in Agile techniques, frameworks, and practices
• Demonstrate leadership by empowering teams to make decisions and deliver value

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.