Senior Manager - Software Engineering (Enterprise Imaging) - Remote
About The Position
Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? 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 Development Manager will lead 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. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within Canada (except for the Saskatchewan province) as you take on some tough challenges.
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, balancing people development, execution, and delivery accountability
- Experience in leading and building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems 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)
- Demonstrated ability to represent Engineering in customer-facing engagements and escalations
- Solid influencing, persuasion, and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution
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 with AI code assistance or Agentic coding practice
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
