(15h Left) Manager Software Engineering

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 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 Impact of work is most often at the local level Primary Responsibilities People Team Leadership Lead 10-15 engineers across one or more Agile squads grow high performing inclusive teams Hire onboard mentor and develop engineers tech leads drive career paths feedback and succession planning Foster a culture of ownership learning psychological safety and continuous improvement Delivery Execution Own end to end delivery for roadmap commitments scope schedule quality risk Establish and track engineering OKRs and DORA metrics lead time deployment frequency MTTR change fail rate Run Agile ceremonies effectively remove impediments ensure predictable velocity and outcome based planning Manage on call rotation incident reviews PIRs and production readiness Engineering Excellence Champion cloud native patterns 12 factor microservices API first design and automated testing unit integration e2e Drive CI CD trunk based development and gated releases improve reliability via observability and SLIs SLOs Enforce coding standards code reviews and documentation reduce tech debt with measurable targets Architecture Security Compliance Partner with architects on scalable cost efficient designs multi AZ Kubernetes messaging streaming caching Embed security by design DevSecOps SAST DAST secrets mgmt vulnerability remediation ensure HIPAA PHI compliance Promote privacy data governance and audit readiness adopt platform guardrails and reusable components Stakeholder Business Leadership Collaborate with Product Design to define scope prioritize value and align on success criteria Communicate status risks and decisions crisply to senior stakeholders influence via data driven insights Manage vendor partners if applicable uphold SLAs and quality standards Financials Operations Track cloud and tooling spend drive FinOps and cost per transaction optimization Budget for headcount licenses and capacity ensure efficient utilization Report operational health uptime error budgets incident trends quality and SLA adherence Manages and is accountable for professional employees and or supervisors Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract company policies and procedures and any and all directives such as but not limited to transfer and or re-assignment to different work locations change in teams and or work shifts policies in regard to flexibility of work benefits and or work environment alternative work arrangements and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment The Company may adopt vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation implied or otherwise on its ability to do so Required Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience 10 years in software engineering with 3 years in people management managing engineers and or team leads Production experience with one or more NET Node and modern frameworks Hands on with cloud AWS containers Docker Kubernetes IaC Terraform and CI CD GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Solid grasp of distributed systems APIs REST messaging streaming Kafka RabbitMQ and relational NoSQL data stores Solid Agile delivery leadership excellent communication coaching and stakeholder management skills Preferred Qualifications Healthcare tech experience claims clinical provider payer and familiarity with HIPAA PHI HL7 FHIR Observability tooling Dynatrace Datadog New Relic Prometheus Grafana ELK Splunk SRE practices and SLO management Security practices OWASP Top 10 SAST DAST SBOM secrets mgmt runtime security Data analytics exposure Snowflake BigQuery Spark event streaming CDC and or ML MLOps basics Experience leading platform modernization microservices from monoliths domain driven design event driven architectures Proven success managing vendor partner engineering teams across time zones 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