Dir, Software Engineer - Remote or Hybrid in MN and DC
About The Position
The Optum Technology Chief Digital Office (CDO) Leadership team is transforming Optum to be an industry-leading Consumer brand. We are on a journey towards delivering a best-in-the-industry consumer experience to our patients and providers by delivering personalized digital solutions that support our consumers throughout their healthcare journeys. This team is transforming to meet the moment – to begin radically altering the way our customers engage with the healthcare system using modern tech to solve some of the most complex problems experienced along the way. Serving all of UnitedHealth Group’s digital technology needs, the CDO team is responsible for driving outcomes across nearly 30 million+ human lives with UnitedHealthcare insurance, a number which puts UHC at the top of the pack as the largest managed care provider in the United States. As a Director of Engineering for the Consumer Engineering Rx team you'll be responsible for the delivery and evolution of components for the Optum Pharmacy roadmap and how it evolves into our One Pharmacy initiative. We need someone with a strong background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best-practices. An aptitude for collaboration across product & engineering teams is critical to further mature our existing products in to various surfaces & channels. We are looking for someone exhibiting exceptional experience with: Architectural design, Collaboration & mentoring, Public cloud based serverless & event-based architectures, Engineering best practices, DevSecOps, Hands-on development knowledge (Node JS / Java), Performance engineering. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. This position follows a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience leading software engineering teams and solutions architecture for data intensive, scalable, high throughput platforms, and applications
- 5+ years of experience with back-end technologies, such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Rest API Development
- 3+ years of experience leading technology operations for large and complex high throughput application or a technology platform
- 3+ years of experience with front-end web technologies, such as Angular, React, JavaScript, Typescript Node JS
- 3+ years of experience proactively tracking the Agile engineering metrics for scrum teams, as well as metrics improvement plans
- Demonstrated Experience enabling DevOps Maturity by driving CI/CD, automation, and continuous monitoring in all the applications, experience using tools like Docker, Dockers etc.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate with a deep technical understanding of emerging technologies to address needs and problems of providing services to large and technically progressive organizations
- Demonstrated experience facilitating and leading engineering teams, architecture & delivery planning activities across geographically diverse and multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrated leadership skills, having led changes in large multi-functional global teams and using Agile practices
Nice To Haves
- Experience with formulating technology strategy, budget, and policies at multiple levels of an organization
- Experience with Azure components relating to networking, security, compute, and resiliency
- Exposure to IaC (Infrastructure as Code) on Azure using Terraform and Azure Kubernetes Service
- Experience with building mobile applications and/or leading mobile development teams
- Solid Full Stack Engineering Concepts (Front End Web Technologies & Back End Technologies) and hands-on on latest technologies
- Demonstrated communication skills including explaining complex concepts effectively to technical and nontechnical audience, negotiation and persuasion, conflict resolution, and presenting to executive levels management
Responsibilities
- Leadership of agile teams building and supporting Public Cloud-based applications & components
- Use your expertise to lay down architectural foundations and provide guidance on development, with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
- Delivery of roadmap that helps transform capabilities by combining access to the right tools, data, platforms and scalable computing with Optum’s healthcare expertise and industry leading data assets
- Produce high quality solutions that are highly reliable and scalable
- Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
- Encourage the growth of engineers through skills development, objectives and goal setting
- Collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team of engineers, product leaders, scrum masters & User Experience engineers
- Support the software delivery team’s ability to rapidly deliver high-value, quality software through the use of automation and "everything - as - code" (EaC) best practices
- Ensure application stability with exceptional quality, reliability engineering, and security controls.
Benefits
- a comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
