Senior Digital Program Lead (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 69,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Sr Technical Project/Program Manager to lead planning and delivery of digital technology initiatives for a state health plan. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage risks and dependencies, drive schedules and releases, and communicate delivery status to senior leadership.

The engagement emphasizes enterprise strategic initiatives, provider portal enhancements, and improving delivery processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related Project Management experience, or 7+ years in lieu of degree.
• 3+ years' experience delivering digital projects for insurance, healthcare or provider portal initiatives.
• Certifications such as PMP, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery for digital initiatives through integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, roadmaps, and release timelines.
• Coordinate efforts across Agile teams, engineering, product, business stakeholders, vendors, and enterprise programs.
• Maintain technical and product knowledge to anticipate risks, support tradeoffs, and resolve blockers and dependencies.
• Identify, assess, track, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions with timely escalation.
• Ensure alignment with governance standards, delivery methodologies, compliance requirements, and quality expectations.
• Manage resources, capacity, team allocations, and delivery constraints while supporting forecasting and execution planning.
• Track budgets, forecasts, vendor commitments, and resource impacts, providing visibility to scope, timeline, and outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with business leaders, product teams, technology partners, architects, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for communications, status reporting, risk management, escalations, and engagement.
• Translate complex technical delivery information into clear, actionable updates for business partners and executives.
• Support Agile delivery via PI planning, sprint and release coordination, dependency management, and cross-team oversight.
• Coordinate release readiness, approvals, implementation planning, change management, and transition to production support.
• Monitor performance, quality, scope, schedule adherence, and issue trends to drive predictable outcomes.
• Contribute to program-level improvements across delivery practices, governance, dependency management, reporting, and collaboration.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

SDLC

Release planning

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

PMP

SAFe certification

Scrum Master

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Sr Technical Project/Program Manager to lead planning and delivery of digital technology initiatives for a state health plan. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage risks and dependencies, drive schedules and releases, and communicate delivery status to senior leadership.

The engagement emphasizes enterprise strategic initiatives, provider portal enhancements, and improving delivery processes.