Director Software Engineering

Caring. Connecting. Growing Together.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Builds complex enterprise ecosystems and solves high-level strategic issues. Decision maker for final recommendation from multiple solution options. Provides governance to ensure engineering best practices are followed
2. Designs solutions at enterprise level connecting multiple platforms. Identifies relevant security standards that apply to own work and adheres to protocols. Understands security risks & implications when evaluating solutions
3. Draws correlations from non-standard data sets and uses broader inferences to drive business value. Ability to understand how different parts of business work together
4. Produces high-level design documents that clearly state the intent/goal and helps team to understand the guardrails. Understands how to produce documents iteratively. Able to define architecture runway for the program for strategic direction with 1 to 5 year horizon
5. Communicates and negotiates direction with executive leadership and technical stakeholders
6. Collaborate with senior technical stakeholders such as Platform Architects & Application Architects to design and implement robust architecture in the platform and support building robust products using Cloud technology and .Net/Java
7. Optimizing web applications for maximum performance, compatibility, and responsiveness across various platforms and devices
8. Expand your expertise by learning and solving problems beyond your core skillset
9. Mentor and guide other engineers to develop and grow within the team
10. Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of industry experience
• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing & maintaining large scale enterprise web, cloud applications
• 8+ years of experience in managing software development teams
• Hands-on experience in Designing, Developing and Managing solution in MS Azure/AWS/GCP Cloud platform
• Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development, etc.
• Experience in Cloud based application development, preferably on Azure cloud
• Experience with API-driven solution stacks, and microservices architecture
• Proven experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Deep knowledge on customer’s product roadmap, Work with customer on their long term strategic technical roadmaps and guide in their decision making
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols
• Expertise level of exposure to .Net and .Net Core stack
• Expertise in Authentication & Authorization solutions, patterns. Familiarity with NextAuth.JS
• Expert in modern Angular web & Azure cloud technology stack, Deep expertise of security, performance, scalability, reliability and feasibility in solution design. Stays current with evolving technologies and recommend use case for implementation
• Expert business knowledge and understand the product market. Defines strategic directions of business architecture, Decision maker for the identification/prioritization of solution from the various options provided by team. Deep knowledge of regulatory environment, sales and digital experience, and channel
• Solid exposure to .Net Full stack product development using technologies like C#, Angular, React, Typescript, CSS, Rest API, SQL/No-SQL Database
• Proficiency over CI/CD pipelines, Azure/AWS/GCP, Github Actions, AI tools in SDLC
• Proven ability to drive strategic technology/engine reuse, technology and architecture health, and development process improvement
• Proven ability to evaluate tools/technologies and demonstrate through POC if required

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.