Director Technology

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 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.

Join Optum Bank’s mission of becoming the bank of health care that addresses the spending, borrowing, and saving needs of millions of consumers, employers, providers, and payers. This role in focused on bank technology and is crucial to growth in the banking and health care sector.

Primary Responsibility:

• Lead a high-performing, multi-disciplinary global engineering team of 20+ engineers
  Drive thought leadership and stay current on technology trends
  Team financial delivery, ensuring on budget delivery with cost-effective global resourcing approaches
  Oversee the migration from monolithic systems to a microservices-based architecture
  Interact with stakeholders to understand their requirements and expectations
• 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:

• 13+ years of progressive product engineering leadership experience
• 7+ years hands on experience in Distributed Systems development (Cloud, web, cloud, etc.)
• 7+ years of experience with microservices architecture
• 5+ years of experience in cloud native solutioning, data messaging/streaming (Kafka), containerization and its orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), NoSQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a large matrix organization
• 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
• Financial Services industry experience

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.