Healthcare Project Delivery Consultant

UST; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 88.000 - 132.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Paid time off

Zusammenfassung

UST is seeking an experienced Healthcare Project Delivery Consultant to lead end-to-end software engagements for healthcare clients. The role requires managing multiple concurrent projects, ensuring scope, budget, and schedule adherence, and coordinating with cross-functional teams including architects, developers, QA, and vendors.

The candidate will drive delivery plans, agile ceremonies, risk management, and executive communications while ensuring HIPAA compliance and data privacy.

Qualifikationen

• 8-10 years of experience leading end-to-end software development engagements.
• 5+ years of experience in Healthcare IT or healthcare software delivery.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies with the ability to select the right approach for each client.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, and Microsoft Project.
• Experience managing distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple clients.
• Excellent client-facing communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience with engagement budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and utilization tracking.
• Willingness to travel to client sites as the engagement requires.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end delivery of client SDLC engagements from requirements to post-go-live support.
• Lead multiple concurrent healthcare client engagements ensuring scope, budget, and timeline commitments are met.
• Serve as the primary delivery contact for client sponsors and executives, coordinating with architects, developers, QA, and vendors.
• Develop engagement plans, schedules, and status reports using Jira and Smartsheet.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and tailor delivery models to client maturity.
• Track progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans; elevate to client leadership early.
• Monitor KPIs and provide executive-ready updates to client and internal leadership.
• Ensure delivery adheres to HIPAA and data privacy requirements.
• Coordinate UAT, system integration testing, and production deployments.
• Drive continuous improvement and reusable delivery practices across engagements.
• Manage engagement budgets, forecasts, billing milestones, and resource profitability.
• Support business development with proposals, effort estimates, SOWs, and discovery workshops.

Kenntnisse

Project Management

Jira

Scrum

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering/Healthcare Informatics

Tools

Smartsheet

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Jobbeschreibung

Healthcare Project Delivery Consultant

UST is searching for an experienced Healthcare Project Delivery Consultant with 8-10 years of proven experience leading end-to-end software development engagements for healthcare clients.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of client SDLC engagements, covering requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Lead multiple concurrent healthcare client engagements, ensuring scope, budget, and timeline commitments are met and changes are managed through formal change control.
• Serve as the primary delivery contact for client business sponsors, product owners, and executives, while coordinating with architects, developers, QA teams, and partner or subcontracted vendors.
• Develop engagement plans, schedules, resource allocation plans, and client status reports using Jira and Smartsheet.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, and adapt the delivery model to each client’s maturity.
• Track progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans, and elevate them to client leadership early.
• Monitor engagement KPIs and provide regular, executive-ready updates to client and internal leadership.
• Ensure delivery adheres to client healthcare regulations, compliance obligations, and data privacy requirements, including HIPAA.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), system integration testing, and production deployments with client teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and reusable delivery practices across engagements.
• Manage engagement budgets, forecasts, billing milestones, billable utilization, and resource profitability.
• Support business development by contributing to proposals, effort estimates, SOW development, and solution discovery workshops.
• Establish communication cadences that keep client and delivery teams aligned.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What You Need

• 8-10 years of experience managing software development projects.
• 5+ years of experience in Healthcare IT or healthcare software delivery.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies, with the judgment to select the right approach for each client.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Smartsheet, Confluence, and Microsoft Project.
• Experience managing distributed, cross-functional teams across multiple clients.
• Excellent client-facing communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving, risk management, and decision-making capabilities.
• Experience with engagement budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and utilization tracking.
• Willingness to travel to client sites as the engagement requires.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field.
• Prior consulting or professional services experience, or a client-facing delivery role at a services firm. (Preferred)
• Experience with healthcare systems such as Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR), Claims Processing, Prior Authorization, Care Management, Population Health, and Provider and Member Portals. (Preferred)
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards, including HL7, FHIR, HIPAA, and EDI X12. (Preferred)
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS. (Preferred)
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and release management processes. (Preferred)

Location & Compensation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Hybrid- Dallas, Texas

Compensation Range

$88,000-$132,000

Who We Are

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI-driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future-ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients' organizations-delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with state and local laws and 'fair chance' ordinances.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

Skills

Project Management, Jira, Scrum

Compensation range

$ 88,000.00 to 132,000.00 per year