Senior Director Software Engineering - Digital Platform

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Help define Platform roadmap for the enterprise, multi-region cloud strategy and own the services and capability delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business initiatives and technologies
• Set short- and long-term vision, strategy, structure and direction for platform organization
• Partners with all Business and Product Leaders to develop new product features and upgrade existing Identity Platform product and processes; helps define product and project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and testing, launch and release plans
• Define Digital Identity Strategy for migration and reengineering existing products & business processes
• Build, develop and guide high-performing talent for this platform team. Define a long-term talent strategy cutting across domains and technology
• Manage web scale systems to demanding availability targets (99.%+)
• Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry, evaluating emerging technologies and evangelizing their adoption
• Manages an Agile (Scrum) Development process in a continuous integration and deployment methodology
• Empower software delivery teams to rapidly deliver software through the use of automation and “everything-as-code” best practices
• Adapting to and remaining effective in a changing environment
• Hands-on approach to better understand the technical challenges faced by the Team; guide the team in technical solutions
• Oversee the planning & technical direction of various development tracks
• Drive architectural initiatives that align our business needs and technical capabilities for Identity Management solutions
• Represent Optum at various forums
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance and results through multiple layers of management and senior level professional staff
• Impact of work is most often at the regional (e.g. multi-state) level, or is responsible for a major portion of a business segment, functional area or line of business
• 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 :

Preferred Qualifications :

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.