Optum is looking to hire a Director of Software Engineering to deliver the highest quality technology solutions for UHG/Optum next generation platforms, applications, and solutions. The role involves owning the design, coding, testing, debugging, documenting, and supporting of software applications to deliver business value and establish strong relationships with business leadership.
Requirements
- Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams
- Background in building platforms, products in large, complex & distributed enterprise environments
- 8+ years of experience overseeing teams that build software solutions and services in large scale environments.
- 8+ years of experience with design patterns, data structures and test automation
- 8+ years of experience in building APIs and highly scalable applications
- 5+ years Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms such as Azure or AWS or GCP, and modern technologies like Node.JS, Graph QL, Dockers, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Elastic Search, SQl or No SQL Database
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing and operations. Also has success in integrating AI throughout the SDLC.
Responsibilities
- Lead a global team (across India & US) for Enterprise Technology, providing software engineering solutions, emerging technology POCs, Architectural blueprints
- Drives the application of modern software engineering practices to improve team delivery and solution outcomes; ensures that teams adopt an “AI First” approach to all designs and solutions
- Champions the implementation of instrumentation and diagnostics to support maintainability and operations
- Champions the use of AI in solution designs as well as everyday tasks across the entire SDLC
- Applies broad knowledge of domain to optimize choices in architecture and design
- Leads team in identifying and implementing modern components, tools and technologies
- Champions “automation first” mentality throughout engineering and operations practices
Other
- Develops a robust understanding of business, market, and customer needs and can leverage that knowledge to propose and drive new or improved solutions to business partners
- Establishes partnerships across business and technology stakeholders to ensure the right problems are being solved the right way to meet customer needs
- Owns the improvement of user and customer metrics (NPS etc) within span of control
- Initiates opportunities and influences stakeholders with ideas that drive business value
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
