Senior Manager Software Engineering – Java, Springboot

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-quality software solutions 
• Manage the full lifecycle of transactional print fulfillment platforms, including document generation, print routing, delivery tracking, and reconciliation
• Champion code reuse, instrumentation, and observability to improve maintainability and operational efficiency
• Lead performance monitoring, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives across infrastructure and application layers
• Coordinate with infrastructure, vendor, and business teams to manage capacity, compliance, and incident response
• Mentor engineers and managers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and customer-centricity
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align technology solutions with customer needs and market impact
• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
• Own and remove impediments for the team(s) and escalate as appropriate
• Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration
• Be a change agent and foster a learn by doing environment
• Provide guidance to team members to improve the team productivity
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
• Conduct regular reviews of incident backlogs, production health metrics, compliance status
• 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 regards 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
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams
• 5+ years of experience with design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade applications in the Azure public cloud using Java and Spring Boot frameworks
• 3+ years of experience managing structured and unstructured data for high-volume document workflows
• 3+ years of experience with one or more document composition tools (e.g. Quadient Inspire)
• Deep understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, instrumentation, and observability practices
• Proven ability to lead automation-first initiatives, adoption of Artificial Intelligence tools and drive code reuse and maintainability

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid customer-centric mindset with experience in design thinking and agile methodologies
• Familiarity with Linux/Windows server environments, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes and Apache Kafka
• Knowledge of HIPAA and other regulatory requirements for healthcare communications
• Proven to be skilled in root cause analysis, performance tuning, and optimization of complex systems
• Proven to be capable of interpreting data to drive decisions and improve operational efficiency
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and influence architecture decisions
• Proven ability to implement and audit security controls across systems and data flows

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.