Director Software Engineering – Remote

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 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.

 

Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group’s enterprise AI team. We are AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for the highest impact opportunities across UnitedHealth Group businesses including UnitedHealthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. In addition to transforming the health care journey through responsible AI/ML innovation, our charter also includes developing and supporting an enterprise AI/ML development platform.

 

Optum AI team members:

• Have impact at scale: We have the data and resources to make an impact at scale. When our solutions are deployed, they have the potential to make health care system work better for everyone
• Do ground-breaking work: Many of our current projects involve cutting edge ML, NLP and LLM techniques. Generative AI methods for working with structured and unstructured health care data are continuously being developed and improved. We are working in one of the most important frontiers of AI/ML research and development
• Partner with world-class experts on innovative solutions: Our team members are developing novel AI/ML solutions to business challenges. In some cases, this includes the opportunity to file patents and publish papers about the methods we develop. We also collaborate with AI/ML researchers at some of the world’s top universities.

 

United AI Studio (UAIS) is an end-to-end platform that enables AI/ML practitioners to build, deploy, manage and scale machine learning (ML) and AI applications responsibly.

As a Director, Software Engineering you will oversee development efforts and architectural designs, guide project vision on United AI Studio, hire and develop engineering talent. In this role, you will manage a team to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable services. As a senior engineering leader, you will work with customers, product owners, architects, other engineering teams and leaders – solving their use cases using playbooks from United AI Studio to drive the adoption of the platform across the organization.

 

The engineering work is primarily done using cloud-based services like Azure, AWS, and GCP, and it is therefore essential that for our team to be successful, all team members should have had experience working on any of these cloud-based services.

 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Trusted partner of the engineering leadership of an organization
• Exemplary system design, technical architecture awareness on building software with efficiency, stability, extensibility, and the ability to evolve over time. Simplify processes and technologies
• Lead engineering team for conceptualizing, designing, developing, and maintaining vital elements of UAIS Platform
• 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 product roadmap of UAIS
• 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 Optum AI to plan and develop talent, process, and capabilities within the organization
• Recommends 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

 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field 
• 12+ years of software engineering experience leading teams
• 8+ years of experience in low level design
• 5+ years of experience with working in any cloud environment – Azure, AWS, GCP
• 5+ years of experience growing and managing geographically distributed teams using successful recruiting, employee development, and retention
• Solid expertise in cloud security and ability to built highly secure enterprise platforms.
• Proven deep computer science fundamentals including Algorithms, Data Structures, and practical applications of these to build software systems
• Proven proponent of metrics & Engineering best practices, and demonstrable track record of addressing engineering efficiency bottlenecks
• Proven solid project planning and execution skills including estimating, scheduling, and executing on committed schedules
• Proven good understanding of the architecture and good experience in design activities (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Proven knowledge on technology stack like Java (Spring Boot), REST APIs, Python, 
• Experience working in a complex, service-oriented service development. 
• Exceptional communication and problem-solving skills.

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Working experience in AI/ML engineering domain and understanding of MLOps
• Experience working in the healthcare sector
• Understanding and defining platform architecture

 

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $132,200 to $226,600 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

 

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.

 

 

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.