Career Advice About Optum

In order to get promoted to Senior 2, I need impact across the engineering team. A principal engineer led an initiative around writing better user stories that was very successful since it changed how engineers and PMs define and coordinate their work. How do I find good projects with a wider breadth of impact?

When it comes time to pick a project, I choose the more technically interesting project, but it often doesn’t have as much business impact. As a result, I feel some of my efforts are wasted. How can I choose a more impactful project?