Senior Manager Software Engineering – Azure, GitHub , Virtual Assistants

Optum’s Corporate & Employee Experience AI Solutions Team delivers AI technologies that power our employees’ work. We are seeking a motivated technical leader to join our team to lead development of the chat & web interfaces for our enterprise-wide multifunction, multidomain Virtual Assistant.

Roles and Responsiblities:

• Lead a high performing Virtual Assistant engineering team to deliver high-quality results on time and partner effectively with business and other IT teams.
• Lead and coach the team on an engineering culture that’s agile, driven, customer-focused, risk-taking, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive.
• Partner closely with product team and contribute to product strategy.
• Develop innovation strategies, processes, and best practices.
• Review code and guide sprint team, ensuring quality is built into every output.
• Lead solution design discussions on various aspects including security, scalability, resiliency, extensibility, proactive system monitoring, design patterns, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed.
• Take responsibility for the quality and stability of the product by being hands-on with code, debugging complex issues, and lead production support readiness reviews for new releases.
• Contribute to architecture discussions with engineering leads, architects, product owners, and development team.

Required Skills

• Minimum of Bachelor Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience building software and web applications
• 3+ years of experience developing & continuously improving Virtual Assistants
• 8+ years successfully leading high-performing engineering development team
• Understanding of Conversational AI tools and platform capabilities
• Experienced in Git, GitHub, Agile development processes
• Proven expertise with Azure services, including Azure Active Directory, app services & function apps, AKS, managing and configuring Azure Virtual Networks and NSGs
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages & patterns; Python is preferred
• Proven track record of diagnosing & efficiently resolving complex technical issues
• Strong oral and written communication skills
Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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