Senior Enterprise Data Warehouse/EDW, Data Analytics Manager - Remote - 2289494

UnitedHealth Group; Belleville (IL); Remote; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, a leader in healthcare, is seeking a Senior Project/Program Manager to oversee Medicaid Data and Analytics projects in Illinois. This role involves managing healthcare datasets, cloud implementations, and ensuring operational excellence, while supporting customer relationships and contract management. Join a company committed to improving health outcomes and providing a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

401k contribution

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing complex projects with 10 or more resources, especially in Cloud.
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools and managing customer relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage operations and data quality for Medicaid projects.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver project requirements.
• Support contract renewals and RFP responses.

Skills

Project Management

Cloud Implementations

Data Analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Informatica

Teradata

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.

Optum is currently seeking a hands-on Senior Project/Program Manager to support our State of Illinois Medicaid Data and Analytics project within our State Government Solutions Data and Analytics practice. The Senior PM will work with large Medicaid healthcare datasets and will translate clients’ business requirements into enterprise systems, applications, or process designs for complex Medicaid health data solutions. The role will drive and support initiatives for our State of Illinois Data and Analytics project as well as participate in the broader Optum State Government Data and Analytics group’s areas of data usage and governance, information management, privacy and security, data analytics and visualization and information modeling.

The Data Analytics Manager will lead the operations and large-scale design, development, and implementation project using industry standard project management best practices. These project management best practices include management of integration, scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder. In this critical role the selected candidate will collaborate closely with the client to build/expand data warehouse and report solutions for Optum. Serves as a key resource on complex business and technical issues facilitating and guiding for a resolution to meet/exceed customer expectations. Sets the example for communication with outstanding written and verbal communication. Manage cross-functional interdependencies between the customer, project teams, product team, and leadership.

You will enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within the continental U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Meet Contractual requirements including operational and data quality
• Lead the data load operations and analytics projects including coordinating product maintenance, upgrades, and prepare for Cloud migration
• Lead implementing the solutions in the Cloud
• Support contract renewals and response to RFPs
• Partner with legal, marketing, sales, accounting, finance, leadership, solutions, and other team so support account growth, and broader SGS growth to meet the MBOs.
• Communicate and work with other project/EDW managers, project team, customer, and the EDW delivery/operations, BI Reporting/Analytics, and MDM team to coordinate all aspects of the project.
• Serve as a technology generalist to guide the team on-prem and Cloud based solutions/implementations; partner with other teams such as product, architecture, legal, financial, accounting, Center of Excellence (CoE), and leadership as required.
• Lead as a functional/business specialist or subject matter and liaison between the customer business team and technical project teams; partner with other State partners or vendors as required.
• Serve as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues
• Support in meeting the Management by Business Objectives (MBOs) to achieve employee experience, customer loyalty, financial/revenue growth, and innovation goals.
• Review work performed by others; provide recommendations for improvement.
• Forecast and plan resource requirements.
• Authorize deviations from standards.
• Lead functional or segment teams or projects.
• Provide explanations and information to others on complex issues.
• Lead, motivate, coach/mentor, and inspire other team members.
• Manage customer relationships and anticipate customer needs to proactively develop solutions.
• Develop and negotiate win/win solutions to project issues.
• Support growth to the project/program
• Work with end users/customers to understand and develop requirement.
• Organize and lead project related meetings with customers, development staff, and sponsor level staff
• Develop/maintain formal Project Schedule.
• Deliver timely and accurate Project Status Reporting and Project Quality Management
• Deliver Project Resource/Staffing Management.
• Lead to deliver the project/contractual requirements and actively manage project triple constraints, and risks/issues and action items to manage the needs of the stakeholders.
• Lead/Support all knowledge areas of PMI, project management principles, and all project performance domains – per the latest PMBOK.
• Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with programmers, analysts, immediate supervisor, management, system users, operations, other State agencies and the private sector.
• Meet with users for clarification and elaboration as necessary to clearly define a problem and conceptualize a development plan.
• Recognize, gather, correlate, and analyze facts, draw conclusions, define problems, and devise solutions and alternatives; and make appropriate recommendations.

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:

• 5+ years of experience managing a contract for a program valued at $5 million in revenue or greater
• 5+ years of experience with managing complex application development projects with 10 or more resources, especially with Cloud based implementations
• 5+ years of experience managing customer relationships
• Experience working/leading projects with databases such as Teradata, and ETL such as Informatica (PowerCenter, B2B, IDQ), and BI tools such Business Objects, Tableau, Power BI
• Experience working/leading projects with BI reporting/data analytics for decision support systems
• Willing or ability to travel up to 25% as needed by the client
• Proven excellent written, verbal communication skills, and presentation skills to executive teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMI Project Management Professional certified
• Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) certification
• 5+ years of experience with Medicaid or Healthcare
• 5+ years of Data Warehousing and Analytics experience
• 3+ years of formal personnel management experience of both direct reports and matrixed resources
• Experience working with Health plan/MCOs, pre-adjudicated claims, and encounter claims data
• Experience with HIPAA X12/EDI Transactions such as 837I/P, 835-RA, 277-CA, etc
• State Medicaid Data Warehouse or Medicaid Management Information Systems
• Experience with Agile methodology, Scrum framework, and Agile/Scrum projects
• Experience with Project and Contract level Change Management and Issue Management
• Experience with project development methodology and project management methodology and able to apply methodology in a practical manner
• Experience with Cloud based technology such as MS Azure, Snowflake database, Python, Azure Data Factory, Data Bricks, et al
• Experience with data streaming, data analytics platform
• Teradata/IntelliFlex experience
• Informatica experience
• Business Objects experience
• SAS experience
• Tableau / PowerBI experience
• SharePoint experience
• Experience working with Agile project and tools such as JIRA, DevOps, VersionOne, Rally, or equivalent
• Experience with Microsoft Project and Project Online
• Solid understanding of Medicaid Program including Program management, Program Integrity, and Federal Reporting (such as T-MSIS, MARS, and HEDIS/Quality of Care measures or equivalent projects)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.