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Release Manager

1 month ago


Washington, United States Optum Full time

The Government Services Support Team at Optum has earned the trust of organizations that our entire country relies on; from the Department of Defense and Veteran’s Administration to the teams at Health & Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. We’re repaying that trust with hard work, new ideas and a commitment to finding better solutions every day. Join us and help create ways for our government services agencies to be more efficient and effective. This will be the next huge step in **your life's best work.**SM**

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* as you take on some tough challenges.
- Prepare, facilitate, and execute release planning for production releases.
- Work with the team to prioritize the CRs and features to be considered in the upcoming releases
- Drive cross-team, functional impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
- Understand and manage dependencies to the release management process
- Provide regular and open communication.
- Help the release team escalate and remove impediments.
- Ensure that the team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value.
- Facilitate the Scrum of Scrums, PO Syncs, System Demos, and Inspect and Adapt workshops for the release.
- Lead teams; provide coaching on the release process to help resolve process issues.

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 with agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
- 5+ years of experience using JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, and SharePoint
- 5+ years of experience with fundamentals of iterative and incremental development
- 5+ years of experience with backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and user stories

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree
- SAFe RTE certification or Scrum Master certification (CSM)
- Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices
- Experience with Veterans Affairs development environments
- Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer
- Knowledge of Salesforce, Pega, Appian or Microsoft Power Platform
- Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to work independently with mínimal supervision, be a team player, and be well organized and efficient with excellent judgment, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Confident and proactive self-starter, skilled in taking initiative, assessing requirements, coming up with plans, and taking the lead in making plans reality.
- A high level of energy with a results-driven attitude in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrate a high degree of adaptability, comfortable in establishing new directions, managing rapid change, and trying different approaches to deal with uncharted territories.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain positive, productive relationships with colleagues, managers, external stakeholders and client.
- Comfortable and experienced operating in an outcome oriented environment.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics
- All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- 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._
- Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law._

RPO, #GREEN


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