Niharika Sharma

About Niharika Sharma

I am a Technical Program Manager with 3+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale healthcare technology programs in highly regulated environments.Currently at Elevance Health, I drive end-to-end delivery across cross-functional engineering, product, and operations teams — ensuring predictable execution, risk mitigation, and measurable business impact.My expertise spans:• Agile program execution at scale• Cloud and platform modernization initiatives• Release management & stakeholder governance• Risk & dependency management in complex ecosystems• AI-enabled reporting & delivery optimizationI am particularly passionate about leveraging AI and automation to improve delivery efficiency, decision-making visibility, and operational cost optimization in enterprise environments.I thrive at the intersection of:Technology × Business Strategy × Execution Discipline.Open to Technical Program Management roles focused on AI, cloud transformation, platform modernization, and enterprise-scale delivery.

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Elevance Health

   Sep 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Led end-to-end delivery of a large-scale Value-Based Care program supporting 3.8M+ members and $320B+ in annual healthcare spend, coordinating execution across 78 cross-functional contributors spanning engineering, QA, product, and operations- Owned program planning, sequencing, and release execution across multiple workstreams, improving overall delivery timelines by ~20% through tighter dependency management and execution discipline- Coordinated 15+ application releases and migrations, partnering with engineering and DevOps teams to manage environments, mitigate release risks, and achieve a 98% on-time release rate- Designed and tracked delivery KPIs and operational metrics, using data-driven insights to reduce release-blocking defects by ~30% and stakeholder escalations by ~40%- Acted as the primary program point of contact for leadership and stakeholders, producing executive-ready status reports, risk logs, and dependency trackers to enable faster decision-making and predictable outcomes- Improved team execution efficiency by ~25% by standardizing planning, improving backlog readiness, and strengthening cross-team coordination in a highly regulated healthcare environment

Education

• Gujarat Technological University (GTU)

  Information Technology

  2017 — 2021

• Gujarat Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering

• Atomic Energy Central School, Kakrapar

  Science, Mathematics, Computer

  2005 — 2017

• Mays Business School - Texas A&M University

  Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, General