VP, Head of AI 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. 

This role will lead and motivate a team of engineers by providing technical vision and direction to the Optum Financial Team in payments and financing use cases that can be solved with AI and work closely with the Enterprise AI team to deliver on our goals. This leader will build and operate AI solutions for the Optum Financial business.

Role- Based in Bangalore, India

Primary Responsibilities:

Technical Excellence and Innovation

• Key leadership role to plan and develop talent, processes, and AI capabilities within the Optum Financial organization.
• Recommend technical patterns and solutions aligned with architectural principles and standards through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide deep technical expertise to review designs and architecture.
• Align solutions with enterprise architecture by collaborating closely with product and capability architects.
• Modernize technology with a shift to modular, data-centric, open-source, and cloud-native technologies.
• 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
• 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 Financial Technology AI to plan and develop talent, process, and capabilities within the organization to support the larger goals of Optum Financial Business
• 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 architecture
• Enhance the 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:

Preferred experience in:

o   financial services background 

o   domain expertise in banking, payments, information security and digital

o   payments control environments. 

• several years of experience in consumer tech, deep tech or financial tech industry firms in engineering or data science roles.
• Experience in both cloud and on platforms such as Redshift, S3, Netezza, Teradata, Databricks. Experience in modelling products for both consumer and commercial banking data models.
•  Experience in data science and data modeling in consumer tech or fintech firms. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any STEM discipline
• 14+ years of software engineering experience leading  geographically distributed teams
• 8+ years of experience working with an Agile development methodology
• 5+ years of experience in working in cloud-native environments
• 4+ years of solid project planning and execution skills including estimating, scheduling, and executing on committed schedules
• 3+ years of expertise in cloud security and ability to build highly secure enterprise platforms
• 3+ years of experience operating in an environment that utilizes  metrics & Engineering best practices, including a track record of quickly addressing engineering bottlenecks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in the healthcare sector
• Experience with Azure

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.