Senior Project Manager - Data, AI & AWS (Healthcare)

UST; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 88,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation 10 days/year

Sick leave 6 days/year

Medical dental vision insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Job summary

UST is recruiting a Senior Project Manager to drive delivery of data platform, ML, and cloud initiatives within our healthcare payer business. You will own schedules, scope, risks, budgets, and stakeholder alignment for programs built on AWS with Databricks and AgentCore foundations.

You will lead multi-team delivery spanning data ingestion, lakehouse builds, ML deployment, and cloud infrastructure, coordinating with architects, data engineers, and compliance partners to ensure HIPAA and privacy

Qualifications

• 8+ years of project or program management experience, including 4+ years leading technical delivery on data/AI initiatives.
• Healthcare payer domain familiarity with claims, clinical, provider, or Medicare data and regulatory context.
• Strong cloud data platform background with hands-on AWS and Databricks experience.
• Experience with ML delivery lifecycles, data prep, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with generative AI and agentic systems; AWS AgentCore a plus.
• Budget, forecast, and vendor management of multi-million-dollar programs.
• Proficient in Agile, Scrum, SAFe or hybrid delivery; Jira/Azure DevOps/Smartsheet/MS Project.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-team programs across data ingestion, lakehouse builds, ML deployment, and AWS infra.
• Create and maintain integrated plans, roadmaps, milestones, forecasts, and budget reporting for complex initiatives.
• Collaborate with architects, data/ML engineers, and agentic systems developers to scope work and define delivery commitments.
• Identify and mitigate risks including data quality, access constraints, model validation, and security approvals.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies or hybrid governance and drive continuous improvement in delivery metrics.
• Translate technical status into clear executive updates for clinical, business, and compliance stakeholders.
• Ensure HIPAA, data privacy, security, and governance requirements are met; coordinate with security teams.
• Manage vendor relationships, SOWs, delivery acceptance, and performance tracking.
• Coach team members and foster accountability, transparency, and quality.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Claims management

Medicare Advantage

Scrum

AWS

Jira

HIPAA

Machine learning

Product management

Tools

Databricks

AWS

S3

IAM

Glue

Lambda

EKS/ECS

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Job description

UST is recruiting a Senior Project Manager to drive delivery of data platform, ML, and cloud initiatives within our healthcare payer business. You will own schedules, scope, risks, budgets, and stakeholder alignment for programs built on AWS with Databricks and AgentCore foundations.

You will lead multi-team delivery spanning data ingestion, lakehouse builds, ML deployment, and cloud infrastructure, coordinating with architects, data engineers, and compliance partners to ensure HIPAA and privacy