Senior Engineering Manager - Stratus Imaging Archive

UnitedHealth Group•Richmond, BC

8d•CA$108,500 - CA$225,200

About The Position

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. Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams build and operate enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms that power modern healthcare workflows. The Stratus Imaging Archive is a foundational component of our Enterprise Imaging strategy, enabling secure, scalable, and interoperable management of medical imaging data across the enterprise. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead engineering teams building and evolving the Stratus Imaging Archive product and play a critical role in advancing our cloud-native Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Enterprise Imaging strategy. This role is accountable for engineering execution, people leadership, customer engagement, and cross-organizational collaboration to deliver reliable, high-quality imaging solutions at scale.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in software engineering
3+ years of experience in software engineering management role
Experience leading multi-team engineering organizations of 20+ engineers, either directly or through engineering leads/managers
Experience leading teams through the full product lifecycle — from building cloud-native customer-facing software to operating it at enterprise scale
Experience in cloud-native design, principles, and best practices
Experience designing, building, and operating large scale data platforms or data intensive distributed systems
Experience in GCP (AWS/Azure acceptable)
Experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
Proven ability to own and lead engineering escalations with customers, from triage through resolution
Demonstrated understanding of the business domain, customer workflows, with the ability to translate domain knowledge into engineering and product decisions
Proven solid influencing, persuasion, and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution
Demonstrated experience balancing customer commitments, product roadmap priorities, operational reliability, and technical modernization
Demonstrated commitment to building a stronger organization — investing in hiring, mentorship, engineering culture, and continuous improvement beyond immediate project needs

Nice To Haves

Proven experience leading multiple teams and/or managers in complex, regulated environments or medical devices
Solid domain experience in Enterprise Imaging, Radiology workflows, or Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) platforms
Experience driving AI adoption within engineering teams to improve productivity, code quality, or delivery velocity
Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards including DICOM, HL7, and FHIR

Responsibilities

Lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
Own delivery execution and planning, ensuring clear commitments, dependency management, and predictable outcomes
Identify and mitigate delivery risk early, driving transparency and corrective action
Ensure operational readiness at release, including reliability, scalability, observability, and support handoff
Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to improve engineering velocity, quality, testing effectiveness, and delivery predictability
Collaborate with Architect and Product to deliver AI within product capabilities, translating opportunities into scalable, reliable, customer-facing value
Drive product innovation in close collaboration with Product, advancing new capabilities that strengthen the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
Lead continuous improvement across engineering practices and delivery to improve quality, efficiency, and operational outcomes
Serve as the engineering representative for the product during customer escalations, providing leadership and cross-team coordination
Partner closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and development partners (e.g. Google) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions
Develop and grow engineering leaders and teams through clear expectations, coaching, and talent development
Experience scaling teams through recruiting, onboarding, and staff augmentation