Lead Technical Product Manager

Requisition Number: 2382998
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Are you passionate about building secure, scalable, and automated cloud networking solutions at enterprise scale? As a Senior Technical Product Manager within Optum's Public Cloud organization, you will play a pivotal role in driving the evolution of our multi-cloud networking capabilities across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform.
In this role, you will partner with engineering teams, cloud architects, security leaders, and application teams to modernize networking experiences that accelerate cloud adoption while ensuring compliance, reliability, and operational excellence. You will help define requirements, drive prioritization, and execute strategic networking initiatives that enable thousands of developers and hundreds of cloud workloads across the enterprise.
This role is ideal for an experienced technical product manager who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, influencing cross-functional teams, and delivering products that simplify cloud networking for application teams.
Primary Responsibilities
Product Ownership and Strategy (20%)

• Own and drive specific cloud networking product areas within the Public Cloud portfolio, including connectivity, ingress/egress, service networking, network security, traffic management, DNS, and hybrid cloud networking
• Partner with senior product leadership to define vision, roadmap priorities, and quarterly objectives for networking capabilities
• Work closely with application teams to understand networking challenges, onboarding friction points, and operational pain points
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, self-service experiences, scalability, and developer productivity
• Translate business and technical requirements into product roadmaps and delivery plans

Execution and Delivery (60%)

• Manage and prioritize networking product backlogs across multiple engineering teams
• Define detailed product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics
• Lead delivery of cloud networking initiatives spanning Azure, AWS, and GCP environments
• Drive improvements in cloud onboarding, network provisioning, firewall automation, service connectivity, and developer enablement workflows
• Coordinate delivery dependencies across engineering, security, compliance, infrastructure, and operations teams
• Monitor product health, adoption metrics, reliability measures, and customer satisfaction indicators
• Support release planning, testing, rollout strategies, and operational readiness activities
• Drive issue resolution and continuous improvement initiatives through customer feedback and operational insights

Stakeholder Management and Collaboration (20%)

• Serve as a trusted partner to engineering managers, architects, security teams, and application stakeholders
• Facilitate alignment across multiple teams with competing priorities and objectives
• Communicate roadmap progress, delivery updates, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes to leadership
• Support portfolio-level planning, quarterly business reviews, and strategic initiatives
• Champion customer-focused product development and data-driven decision making

Additional Responsibilities

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any directives that may arise as business needs evolve. The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion.

Required Qualifications (8-12 + Yrs ) : -

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of product management experience with technical infrastructure, cloud platform, networking, or enterprise technology products
• 3+ years of experience working with public cloud technologies including Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, private connectivity, VPNs, and hybrid networking
• Experience working with cloud-native networking services such as Azure Virtual Network, AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Cloud DNS, Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, and related technologies
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams using Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements and customer value propositions
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and successfully deliver complex initiatives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision making
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting to technical and business stakeholders

Core Competencies : -

• Technical Acumen :Deep understanding of cloud networking architectures, connectivity patterns, security controls, and infrastructure automation.
• Customer Focus : Demonstrated ability to understand application team needs and translate feedback into product improvements.
• Execution Excellence: Strong track record of delivering complex infrastructure or platform capabilities at scale.
• Collaboration and Influence : Ability to drive alignment across engineering, security, operations, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strategic Thinking : Capable of connecting day-to-day product execution with broader platform and business objectives.
• Data-Driven Decision Making : Experience using adoption metrics, operational KPIs, and customer feedback to guide priorities and measure success.

Preferred Qualifications -

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM/Bicep
• Experience with Kubernetes networking concepts and container platforms
• Understanding of Zero Trust networking principles and cloud security architecture
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise cloud transformations
• Familiarity with developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, and platform engineering practices
• AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or networking certifications
• Experience using AI-powered productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Azure AI services

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work. SM
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.