Dir, Software Engineer - Remote or Hybrid in MN and DC

Requisition Number: 2371691
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.
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.
Primary 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.

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.
Required Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $134,600 - $230,800 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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