Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•La Crosse, WI

2d•Remote

About The Position

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. 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. Company thought leader Functional SME Broad business approach Resource to senior leadership Develops pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends The Sr. Manager, Software Engineering serves as the technology leader working to ensure engineering operational excellence. The role is responsible for the overall operational excellence of the product area, consisting of 3-8 feature teams, to ensure we have high performing feature teams that are tackling the highest priority work and leveraging current development practices to deliver high quality features that align to the business needs. You will focus on execution as well as serve as a mentor in leading through digital and organizational transformation. 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.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in leading multi-faceted development Teams
4+ years of experience in the implementation of Domain-Driven-Design and Event-Driven-Architecture
4+ years of strong Experience in implementing microservices architecture
4+ years of Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
4+ years of experience in programming languages (e.g., .Net, Angular)
4+ years of experience leading in an Agile organization
3+ years of experience with DevOps practices and tools
2+ years of experience with integration technologies, middleware, and protocols
2+ years of experience with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and messaging systems
Experience creating & owning business-enabling multiple technology roadmaps
Experience leading through influence in a complex, large, matrixed, global environment
Knowledge of networking and internet protocols
Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
Proven history of success with application modernization and rationalization
Proven track record of leading through other leaders
Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective
Proven expertise in Agile and DevOps methodologies
Demonstrated track record of developing enterprise platforms and leading large scale/high transaction digital experiences
Proven expertise applying architecture and engineering practices to drive business value
Proven history of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals and achieving them through intelligent actions, which balancing competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution
Proven deep hands-on technical expertise in building web applications and RESTful web services
Proven fosters accountability, transparent communication, innovation and leading by example
Proven outstanding collaboration, strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent 6+ years of experience
Azure certifications
3+ of the following:
Experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks / libraries
Experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments
Experience with CI/CD and test automation
Experience with building and deploying containers
Experience in deployment patterns including Blue/Green, Rolling, and Canary
Experience with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or other similar relational database management
Experience with Web APIs and (REST) based communication
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, Terraform
Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure, AWS, or Google
Experience in automated configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
Experience with FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53
Experience writing and testing Web parts, content types, event handlers, custom workflows, and site definitions
2+ years of industry experience in full-stack development
2+ years of government contracting experience
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Responsibilities

Engage with product and technology leaders to gain understanding of the business strategy, vision and priority
Lead multiple engineering/feature teams & drive operational excellence
Implement Agile software development and automation across all technology platforms
Identify gaps in skills in your product and align those gaps to the upskilling curriculum, using influence to reprioritize as needed
Actively participate in all product area events (Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospectives)
Serve as a partner to the Product Owner (PO) to improve our operational excellence, identify areas of opportunity as well as celebrate successes
Serve as technical co-owner-in partnership with other product technical leaders-for the platforms, portals and systems that underlie our product areas
Partners with the PO, Lead Software Engineer (LSE) and teams when vulnerabilities, issues or remediations are required
Provides guidance to the teams during product refinement, analysis, solutioning, and delivery of the work
Regular 1:1s with all technical team members in the Product
Provide meaningful feedback to the Talent Advocates (people managers)
Provide an excellent onboarding experience for all new team members joining the product to include: team alignment, applications, processes, and tools
Observe and update policies related to our Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Assists the Scrum Masters and Feature teams in clearing large obstacles
Keep current with modern technologies and enterprise systems to maintain a wide body of knowledge; regularly teach concepts for colleagues
Serves as a mentor to colleagues with regards to developing strong business relationships and leading through organizational transformation