Sr Director, Software Engineering - Remote or Hybrid in MN or DC

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

UHC Technology is focused on driving change, modernization, and ensuring reliable and stable systems so that we can help to transform health care - making it easier, more affordable, and more effective for those we serve.  We are passionate about technology and the role it plays to create distinctive experiences to our constituents.  While we are always focused on how technology can help us deliver faster and with improved quality, we are far more enthusiastic about the ways technology can reinvent how we deliver on our mission in partnership with the UHC lines of business and Optum Technology.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide executive leadership for security, platform stability, and resiliency across C&S Technology, ensuring reliable, compliant, and predictable operations for member and business critical platforms
• Own security risk management, including identification, prioritization, and remediation of critical and high vulnerabilities across applications, infrastructure, and third party vendors
• Lead production incident management and stability engineering, including real time decision making for P1/P2 incidents, root cause analysis, and durable remediation
• Establish and enforce disciplined change governance, deployment readiness, and operational controls to minimize risk during peak and high impact change periods
• Define and execute resiliency strategy, including disaster recovery readiness, business continuity planning, and execution of BCP and incident response drills
• Oversee third party and vendor security posture (e.g., MFA, certificates, access controls), ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations
• Serve as a primary technology leader for U.S. and state regulatory engagement related to security, incidents, and platform stability
• Drive proactive monitoring, observability, and AIOps capabilities to predict issues, reduce incident volume, and accelerate resolution
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and business leaders to identify high risk platforms and ensure appropriate IT ownership, controls, and resilience
• Provide executive level reporting and insights on security, stability, and resiliency to the CIO, governance forums, and senior leadership
• Lead and develop onshore teams responsible for security operations, stability engineering, and resiliency execution, ensuring clear accountability and ownership

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:

• 12+ years of overall technology experience, including architecture, operations, engineering, or platform leadership in large scale enterprise environments
• 5+ years of senior leadership experience in security, platform stability, resiliency, or reliability engineering 
• Experience engaging with regulatory and compliance stakeholders, including preparation for audits, incidents, and executive level reporting 
• Demonstrated experience leading with a small, highly effective team, driving impact through prioritization, and automation
• Proven expertise in: 
  • Security operations & risk management (incident response, vulnerability management, third party risk, change governance)
  • Stability & resiliency (production incident management, root cause analysis, disaster recovery, business continuity planning) 
• Solid background in AI enabled operations and automation, including use of AI/ML or AIOps to improve detection, prediction, prevention, and resolution of incidents

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related field 
• Familiarity with third party and vendor risk management, including security controls, access governance, and compliance oversight
• Demonstrated ability to provide clear, executive level communication and reporting to CIOs and senior leadership during high risk or high visibility situations
• Demonstrated success leading and developing onshore teams responsible for sensitive security and operational responsibilities
• Demonstrated solid judgment, accountability mindset, and ability to make real time decisions under pressure

*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 $159,300 to $273,200 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.

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