Senior Director of Software Engineering - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Senior Director of Software Engineering is responsible for leading a large-scale engineering organization delivering consumer-facing digital products and platforms supporting personalization, communications, onboarding, preferences, and customer experience initiatives. This leader will drive technology strategy, engineering execution, organizational effectiveness, and business partnership across a complex portfolio of products and services.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, proven leadership of managers and engineering organizations, and exceptional business partnership skills. This individual will lead through influence, drive delivery of complex technology initiatives, remove organizational obstacles, and ensure teams execute against strategic business objectives while advancing modern engineering practices and AI-enabled software development.

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.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Lead and develop a multi-layer engineering organization consisting of managers, senior managers, and software engineering teams
• Partner closely with business and product leaders to align technology investments with business outcomes and customer needs
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, software development, platform modernization, and engineering delivery
• Drive execution of complex, enterprise-scale technology initiatives and ensure successful delivery of strategic priorities
• Establish and maintain engineering excellence through modern software development practices, DevSecOps, automation, and continuous delivery
• Influence business and product stakeholders to make informed technology decisions and investments
• Remove organizational barriers, address execution challenges, and enable teams to deliver efficiently at scale
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Leverage AI-enabled engineering capabilities to improve software development velocity, quality, and operational efficiency
• Build solid relationships across engineering, product, architecture, operations, and executive leadership teams

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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering leadership experience
• Experience leading managers and multi-layer engineering organizations
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale software products, platforms, or enterprise technology initiatives
• Proven experience partnering directly with business and product leaders to influence priorities, investments, and strategic decisions
• Proven solid software architecture, system design, and technical leadership capabilities
• Experience leading cloud-native engineering organizations utilizing modern software development practices
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution, remove obstacles, and deliver results in complex matrixed environments
• Proven exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills
• Experience incorporating AI tools and capabilities into software engineering practices and delivery processes

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Healthcare technology experience
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