Director of Software Engineering

Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive. 

The Director of Software Engineering is a key leadership role within the Optum Product Engineering leadership team. As a director you will set technology strategy for your managers and influence the direction of our products and teams. We are looking for a collaborative self-starter who can take ownership and passionately drive results. In addition to having impact on a great team, you’ll also discover the career opportunities you’d expect from an Industry Leader.

Schedule: Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, standard business hours.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin  or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Driving technology strategy and tracking MBO’s for multiple software engineering teams
• Building high performing teams and leaders that can deliver high-quality software and business value
• Champions the usage of modern agile tools, processes, best practices, modernization, training, etc
• Driving a strong and professional engineering culture at the leadership and team level
• Partners with product management to build roadmaps that will achieve business success including the measurement of success
• Managing the budget and forecasts at the group level
• Influencing leaders, partners and dependency teams to drive success
• Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry, evaluating emerging software technologies and evangelizing their adoption

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications: 

• Professional engineering leadership experience in a commercial product development environment
• Experience leading teams directly (ability to apply process, design, engineering principles, and tools to solve technical or market challenges) and through coaching/mentoring of engineers
• Experience delivering software and services on Public and/or Private Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Experience setting technology strategy for managers and projects to drive measurable outcomes
• Proven track record being wholly accountable to customer-facing applications and their SLA’s/SLO’s
• Understanding of production infrastructure and application maintenance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in cloud cost management and optimization
• Knowledge of Optum businesses, critical enterprise platforms, and their related analytic needs is beneficial

 Soft Skills:

•  Interpersonal skills, passion around facilitation, empowerment and servant leadership

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 

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 marginalised 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.

 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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