Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a health care company focused on developing integrated health programs and improving the health system. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will lead multiple engineering teams, driving operational excellence, delivery quality, system ownership, and customer outcomes. The role combines technology and people leadership with responsibility for Agile and DevOps maturity, strategic roadmaps, talent development, and enterprise-scale digital platforms.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, business, and technology leaders to understand business strategy, vision, and priorities
- Lead multiple engineering teams, driving accountability for delivery, quality, and system ownership
- Ensure teams are working on the highest-priority initiatives aligned to business outcomes
- Serve as the technical owner and decision maker for platforms, portals, and systems within your scope
- Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and teams to address vulnerabilities, incidents, and remediation efforts
- Implement and mature Agile and DevOps practices, including automation and continuous improvement
- Actively participate in product-area events (Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives)
- Use data and metrics to improve predictability, quality, and operational performance
- Identify skill gaps within teams and align upskilling efforts to organizational priorities
- Conduct regular 1:1s and quarterly check-ins, reinforcing accountability, growth, and performance expectations
- Provide a high-quality onboarding experience covering team norms, systems, tools, and delivery practices
- Ensure adherence to and continuous improvement of SDLC standards and policies
- Partner with Scrum Masters and the Delivery Manager to drive team performance, ensuring continuous progress toward high-performing teams. This includes supporting both full-time and contracted resources and collaborating with Resource Partner (Vendor) Management on performance management as needed
- Stay current with modern technologies and enterprise systems; actively share knowledge with peers
- Mentor leaders and engineers in building solid business partnerships and leading through change
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field or 6+ years of equivalent experience
- 4+ years leading multi-team engineering organizations
- 2+ years of experience working with cloud networking principles
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience building modern web applications and RESTful services
- Experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
- Experience with microservices architectures
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Experience defining and owning multi-year technology roadmaps
- Knowledge of networking and internet protocols
- Solid knowledge of integration technologies, middleware, and protocols
- Solid understanding of SOLID design principles
- Understanding of encryption, PKI, and OWASP security principles
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling and practices
- Proficiency in modern development languages (e.g., .NET, Angular)
- Deep expertise in Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to lead through other leaders
- Proven ability to build solid relationships with business leaders
- Proven success leading application modernization and rationalization initiatives
- Proven solid strategic thinking with an enterprise-level perspective
- Proven track record delivering large-scale, high-transaction digital platforms
- Proven solid application of architecture and engineering practices to drive measurable business value
- Proven ability to influence in a complex, matrixed, global environment
- Proven consistent execution excellence-setting clear goals and delivering results amid competing priorities
- Proven to foster a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Proven exceptional collaboration, influence, problem-solving, and negotiation skills
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- United States Citizenship
- If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment
- Azure certifications
- 2+ years of full-stack development experience
- Demonstrated strength in 3+ of the following areas: Modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, etc.), Container deployment and orchestration across environments, CI/CD pipelines and test automation, Advanced deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, Rolling), Relational databases (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), REST-based API development, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Cloud-native development (Azure, AWS, GCP), Configuration management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible), FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53 compliance, Enterprise content and workflow platforms
- Government contracting experience
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- Remote work flexibility from anywhere within the U.S.
- A comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements
- Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements
- 401k contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
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