Project Manager for Senior Data Warehouse

UnitedHealth Group is the most diversified health care company in the United States and a leader worldwide in helping people live healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone.

As a Senior Data Warehouse Project Manager for the State of Illinois Data Warehouse Program, you will be responsible for delivery of contractually required hardware, software, and services deliverables for customer information technology contracts and related projects for the Data Warehouse project for the State of Illinois. You will be a business specialist and technology generalist managing, directing and interfacing with business clients. You will align technology solutions with business strategies, working primarily with senior management. You will be responsible for proactively identifying opportunities, and conducting analysis, needs assessments, cost/benefit assessments pertaining to other IT services as appropriate.

* Serve as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues * Review work performed by others and provide recommendations for improvement * Forecast and plan resource requirements * Authorize deviations from standards * May lead functional or segment teams or projects * Provide explanations and information to others on complex issues * Lead, motivate and inspire other team members * Manage customer relationships and anticipate customer needs to proactively develop solutions * Manage vendor contracts (Statements of Work [SOW]) for Hardware, Software, and Service * Business development planning; developing integration services proposals; government procurement; providing pre-sales technical support and designing technical solutions. * Develop and negotiate win/win solutions to project issues * 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 * Responsible for Project Status Reporting, Project Quality Management, and Project Budget Management * Responsible for Project Resource/Staffing Management * 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

**Required Qualifications:** * 5+ years of experience with managing complex application development projects * 5+ years of experience managing projects with 10 or more resources * 3+ years of experience managing a contract for a program valued at $5 million in revenue or greater * 3+ years of Program Management experience including Hardware, Software, and Services related deliverables * 3 years of experience with Medicaid or Healthcare * 3+ years of Data Warehousing experience * 3+ years of formal personnel management experience of both direct reports and matrixed resources * 3+ years of experience managing customer relationships **Preferred Qualifications:** * State Medicaid Data Warehouse or Medicaid Management Information Systems * Solid understanding of Medicaid Program including Program management, Program Integrity and Federal Reporting (i.e., CMS 64) * PMI certified * CBIP certification * Teradata experience * Informatica experience * Business Objects experience * SAS experience * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Experience with Microsoft Project * Extensive experience with Project and Contract level Change Management * Extensive experience with Project and Contract Issue Management * Extensive experience with project development methodology and project management methodology and able to apply methodology in a practical manner