Senior Manager, Technical Program Delivery - Cloud, Data - Remote

** Requisition number:
** 2363324

** Job category:
** Business & Data Analytics

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start 
** Caring. Connecting. Growing together.*
* This Sr. Manager own end‑to‑end delivery of cloud‑based technical initiatives, including implementing large‑scale solutions within an Azure and Snowflake technology stack. They will lead and manage large, complex technical development programs across multiple work streams. They will be accountable for delivery quality, ensuring technical solutions meet defined requirements, performance standards, and business objectives.

Additionally, they will own end‑to‑end program governance, ensuring alignment across delivery plans, financial outcomes, and quality standards in complex, multi‑workstream initiative. We are looking for a senior, energetic technical delivery leader who can run a large Medicaid data platform end-to-end, balancing modernization, DDI, and production operations. This person is hands-on enough to engage with architects and engineers, senior enough to manage contract and financial outcomes, and steady enough to be a trusted partner to state leadership.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

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* Primary Responsibilities:

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* + Own delivery across both active modernization initiatives and ongoing production operations, including incident management, production stability, defect remediation, release coordination, and continuous improvement

+ Demonstrated ability to engage deeply with technical architecture, data flows, and delivery plans, challenge assumptions, and proactively remove delivery impediments

+ Act as a day-to-day delivery partner for state and client leadership, balancing delivery rigor with transparency, responsiveness, and trust

+ Design Development and Implementation (DDI) delivery, large‑scale data platform implementations, and operations support with solid business acumen

+ Implement product or project in Cloud (using Azure, ADF, Snowflake, Power

BI - tech stack) with solid technical delivery and quality

+ Demonstrate exceptional execution discipline across project and program management dimensions, including:

+ Schedule, scope, cost, and quality control

+ Risk and issue management

+ Change management

+ Executive‑level communication and stakeholder alignment

+ Program management and commercial/financial acumen, including experience with:

+ Cost and revenue forecasting

+ Invoicing and financial reconciliation

+ Vendor management, Statements of Work (SoWs)

+ Contract amendments, renewals, and proposals

+ Coordinate delivery across product, engineering, operations, security, and support teams

+ Contractual and compliance alignment for regulated environments

+ Solid leadership presence with the ability to:

+ Manage resources with direct reports and indirect reports

+ Operate efficiently in a matrix organization

+ Thought leadership and challenging the status quo to deliver business value

+ Lead and motivate large technical teams

+ Influence without authority

+ Balance delivery rigor with customer partnership

+ Navigate ambiguity in complex modernization programs

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.

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* Required Qualifications:

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* + 5+ years of experience leading large, complex technical delivery project/ programs, managing 10-15+ cross‑functional resources (ETL, Data Engineering, BI, QA, DBAs, Architecture, Security, App Admins, Dev Ops) across…