Senior Project Manager/ Senior Business Architect

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.

At Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group company, our people and technology meet the benefits needs of employees and families at more than one-fourth of the Fortune 500 companies through customization and innovation. National employers can then best access the full range of products and services offered by UnitedHealth Group companies while enjoying the ease of integrated administration for all employee services. It's a thriving business with an added personal significance…and a rare combination that will allow your career to flourish.



Exante Bank is an FDIC insured financial institution who along with their parent company, Exante Financial Services, a division of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading financial services organization dedicated solely to the health care industry. Together they provide unparalleled expertise in this area and offer a wide range of financial products and services to insurers, employers, consumers, and health care professionals. And to our employees we offer all the rewards and challenges necessary for career health and happiness.



This individual's primary responsibility would for translating business objectives into detailed business requirements, design, use cases, systems scope, and data mapping to feed the technical requirements and development conducted by operations/ development to support the product launch process for new products and line extensions. This person is adept at assimilating, integrating, and interfacing technical knowledge with business/systems requirements. We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate leadership through this process.




Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of the product, project organization and industry.


Define the set of concepts, processes, and services that comprise the enterprise's value chain and operations.


Define the data architecture that describes the information required to support those processes and business concepts, and how that data is stored, collated, and integrated.


Prepares requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations. Process flows, event flows, data modeling and use case definitions.


Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution for peer review of process.


Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product's vision and the project's scope.


Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.


Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.


Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.


Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.


Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Participate in peer reviews of work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.


Help identify process improvement for the BA team as well as product and operational teams.

Job Requirements:Requirements:


8-12 years experience in banking or healthcare industry


5-7 yrs of business architectural skills including data and event modeling.


Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements


Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops. Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information. Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say


Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation


Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff


Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information


Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)


Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using modeling languages already established in the development organization

Education level of BS or BA required. MBA preferred.



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