Senior Director Software Engineering

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. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designs and deliver solutions at enterprise level connecting multiple platforms. Identifies relevant security standards that apply to own work and adheres to protocols. Understands security risks & implications when evaluating solutions
• Drives technical strategies in partnership with business to ensure technology strategies meet business objectives
• Advise business unit tech and business leaders on technology and industry trends leveraging new and emerging technology and methods
• In support of the business, identify new and analyze existing business products and systems. Develop initiatives, programs, and projects in order to drive the business objectives for growth, evaluating new markets and creating new offerings
• Drive innovation through ‘show and tell’ illustrated through the art-of-the-possible proof of concepts
• Identify the value proposition, cost benefit analysis and business impact for the initiatives
• Evolve technology through engineering excellence by driving to the best engineering: discipline, architecture, processes, agile delivery methodologies, estimation processes, and post-delivery support
• Align and define best practice approaches with the business by: Establishing organizational change and focus, leading organizational change, driving innovation and delivering on execution
• Foster teamwork and collaboration between the IT and business; identifying the right talent, driving organizational talent change, hiring for talent in the future, and empowering employee engagement
• Focus on the development and growth of architecture talent and leaders
• Direct creation of Enterprise Architecture solutions and ensure development alignment with proposed solutions
• Provide technical leadership in architecture, design, and engineering in modernization of legacy solutions, establishing best practices and a technical roadmap
• Collaborate with other architects on the system design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software
• Produce solutions that are models of performance, scalability, and extensibility
• Ideate/ Solution next generation applications to use Data as a strategic platform to grow the top line revenue
• Create/review/update application design and deployment patterns for the public/private/hybrid cloud contexts 
• Develop system designs, specification documents for implementation, and develop Infrastructure-as-Code to support recommended solutions
• Serve as the cloud subject matter expert who provides strategy and architecture recommendations for the organization and leadership
• Work with leaders and team members at all levels and across functional lines 
• Present to Business/IT teams on Optum’s infrastructure and hosting services and identify the benefits of hosting and/or integrating with Optum
• Influence internal peer teams to adapt services and processes to better meet integration requirements
• Daily meetings with team and customers/application teams to gather requirements, lead technical conversations
• Provide input on RFPs/RFIs/SOWs and translate high-level architecture diagrams into cost estimations, 
• Maintain technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies / products / trends related to security and architectural solutions
• Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry evaluating emerging software technologies
• Look across teams and products to find synergies and solutioning mindset to identify/remove duplication
• Set automation standards, implements tooling to support/report adherence
• Willingness to put in the effort, working outside normal business hours, if necessary, to meet project timelines
• Work effectively in a diverse organization spread across multiple locations
• Drive the use of new and innovative technologies into standard engineering design and practice such as AI/ML
• 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 relevant field 
• 18+ years of industry experience
• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing & maintaining large scale enterprise web, cloud applications
• Proven experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions for CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience in Cloud based application development, preferably on Azure cloud
• Experience with API-driven solution stacks, and microservices architecture
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols
• Expert business knowledge and understand the product market. Defines strategic directions of business architecture, Decision maker for the identification/prioritization of solution from the various options provided by team. Deep knowledge of regulatory environment, sales and digital experience, and channel
• Deep knowledge on customer’s product roadmap, Work with customer on their long term strategic technical roadmaps and guide in their decision making
• Exposure to Java Full stack Web development using technologies like Java, Springboot, React, Next JS, JS, Typescript, CSS, Tailwind CSS, CSS frameworks like Shad CN, Node JS
• Expertise in Authentication & Authorization solutions, patterns Familiarity with NextAuth.JS
• Proficiency over CI/CD pipelines, Azure, specifically AKS, Helm Charts and ArgoCD workflows to automate and streamline the release process
• Proven highly motivated with proven success meeting commitments in a deadline-driven environment with multiple competing priorities  
• Core Technologies
  • Compute, Storage, Networking, Load Balancing, Firewalls
  • Backups, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring, Edge Security,
  • Desktop technologies, Application Hosting, Call Centers and Microsoft 365
• Hosting Platforms
  • Linux/MacOS/Mobile Dev Platforms, etc.
  • Public Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS)
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Private Cloud
• Concepts/Methodologies
  • CI/CD, DevOps, Agile Methodologies, Multi-Tier Architecture
  • AI – ML/NLP/Deep Learning
  • Big Data, NoSQL, GraphDB
  • Data Analytics / Visualization
  • GraphQL

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.