Director Software Engineering

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.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering team for conceptualizing, designing, developing, and maintaining vital elements of Electronic Prior Authorization solution
• Raise the bar on excellence in execution in terms of quality, timeliness, and scalability
• Take accountability for Key Engineering Metrics of the platform namely Availability, response time metrics, Time to Value and Time to build
• Develop and Evolve Engineering and technology roadmap of Electronic Prior Auth
• Collaborate with counterparts in other Geographical locations to ensure smooth execution of critical projects across the board
• Drive talent transformation as per the needs of Business
• Key leadership responsibility in Electronic Prior Auth to plan and develop talent, process, and capabilities within the organization
• Recommend applicable technical patterns and solutions that are aligned with architectural guiding principles and standards through a regular cadence of delivery and continuous improvement initiatives
• Deep technical expertise to review designs and architectures
• Collaborates closely with Product and Capability Architects on aligning inferred Solutions and Enterprise architecture to granular technical patterns and solutions
• Drives technology modernization activities with architects and engineering teams including a shift to modular, data centric, open-source, and cloud-native technologies
• Governs technical debt and promotes balance with Technical Product Management in achieving architectural objectives through influencing of Product, Capability, and Engineering backlogs
• Works closely with Technical Product Owners in plotting required Enablers to support business feature teams on the Architecture Runway, ensuring full lifecycle delivery through CI / CD pipeline
• Improve Engineering culture of the team
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance and direction through multiple layers of management and senior level professional staff
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regard to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 12+ years of software engineering experience leading teams
• 8+ years of experience working with an Agile development methodology
• 5+ years of experience in working in cloud-enabled solutions in Azure or AWS
• Experience with creating presentations for executive audience with the ability to translate and communicate complex Business, IT and operational challenges into perspectives that are understandable, impactful and actionable for leaders
• Experience working in a large matrix organization
• Experience working in the healthcare sector
• Solid expertise in cloud security and ability to built highly secure enterprise platforms
• Deep computer science fundamentals including Algorithms, Data Structures, and practical applications of these to build software systems
• Proven high proficiency of both written and verbal English communication
• Proven proponent of metrics & Engineering best practices, and demonstrable track record of addressing engineering efficiency bottlenecks

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.