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Agile Practitioner 3 - Eden Prairie, MN or Telecommute

Employer
UnitedHealth Group
Location
Eden Prairie
Salary
94500.00 - 171700.00 USD Annual

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Industry
Technology
Role
Other
Job Type
Long-Term
Hours
Full Time

As an Agile Practitioner 3, you will be responsible for ensuring Agile Frameworks are understood and enacted. Agile Practitioners do this by ensuring that the team and organization adhere to the values of the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles therein. You are a servant leader. You help employees and stakeholders understand and enact empirical product development. You are a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for the team, organization and enterprise. You are not defined or bounded by your title, but instead focus on delivering value. You seek to continuously improve your own skills, the effectiveness of your team, and the organization's understanding of Agile. You measure progress using learning milestones. You support the five elements of a learning organization: personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. You adhere to the five Scrum values: focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect.

As an Agile Practitioner 3, you will be working with multiple teams and with all levels of leadership, including executive leadership, to coach in agile, devops, and change management principles and practices to influence change from the top-down as well as bottom-up. Depending on your ability, track record, and organization needs, you may be invited to serve in leading an organization through change by crafting and executing a coaching strategy in alignment with business outcomes. In this, you will serve as a servant leader to the client, a team of coaches (if needed), and to team members in the coaching organization. As a coach, you are expected to build a strong circle of influence. A high emotional quotient and an ability to form positive relationships with clients, peers, and team members is essential.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Positions in this function are involved in the definition, management, and implementation of transformation efforts.
  • Focuses on being a change agent to identify transformation opportunities across the enterprise, establishing a transformation roadmap and delivering upon transformation outcomes
  • Positions are transformation specialists with the ability to influence business, operations and technology leaders

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:

  • 3+ years of application development/support experience in a large enterprise environment
  • 2+ years of experience leading teams and/or managing workloads for team members
  • Prior experience leading development and/or support for large, critical applications, preferably on multiple platforms
  • Growth Mindset
  • Experience on Large Scale IT initiatives
  • If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher level of education
  • Prior experiences leading/working with distributed team
  • Agile Certification(s)
  • Prior experiences working with recruiting vendors
  • Previous experience managing/working with a remote team of resources including offshore team members
  • Previous Healthcare industry experience

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $94,500 to $171,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, In addition to your salary, UHG offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; paid parking or public transportation costs; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; business travel accident insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Eden Prairie, MN, Minnesota, Telecommute, Telecommuter, Telecommuting, Work from home, Work at home, Remote, Agile Practitioner 3

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