Optum · 9 hours ago
Sr Dir, Software Engineering - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$159K/yr - $273K/yr
15+ years expOptum is a global leader in health care innovation, focusing on developing solutions that enhance health systems. The Senior Director of Software Engineering will lead enterprise-wide technical program and delivery efforts, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and driving the integration of AI into workflows.
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Responsibilities
Set the enterprise delivery strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, OKRs, and long range priorities
Oversee multiple portfolios, ensuring coordinated planning, prioritization, and sequencing across teams, systems, and business units
Guide capacity, demand, and forecasting conversations to support sustainable, predictable enterprise delivery
Govern portfolio level prioritization, ensuring unified backlogs and transparent trade off decisions
Anticipate and resolve systemic risks and dependencies, partnering with architecture and engineering to address structural constraints
Establish delivery governance, KPIs, and dashboards that provide executives visibility into performance, risk posture, and value realization
Lead high impact cross organizational initiatives requiring coordination across internal partners and external stakeholders
Represent delivery strategy and progress in executive forums, clearly communicating risks, needs, and outcomes
Influence senior leaders across technology, product, operations, and business domains to maintain shared priorities and coordinated execution
Provide guidance through ambiguity, transformation, and organizational change, ensuring teams receive consistent direction
Strengthen collaboration across teams to drive integration, operational cohesion, and efficient flow of work
Champion an AI First culture, setting expectations for leaders and teams and ensuring alignment with enterprise AI governance
Sponsor AI upskilling at scale (e.g., AI Literacy, AI Dojo, leadership enablement), ensuring teams understand how to apply AI confidently and safely
Drive adoption of AI enabled operating models, integrating AI into planning, delivery, workflow redesign, and decision making
Establish responsible AI guardrails, reinforcing ethical standards, legal compliance, and risk management
Modernize organizational ways of working by enabling teams to use AI to improve workflows, accelerate delivery, and enhance decision quality across portfolios
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a related field or 15+ years of equivalent experience
15+ years in software engineering, product delivery, or technology leadership
10+ years leading multi team or multi portfolio delivery organizations
Proven success in portfolio level governance, including prioritization, forecasting, roadmap alignment, and multi team execution
Experience in SDLC, platform modernization, integration management, and large scale system delivery
Demonstrated executive level communication, influence, negotiation, and organizational leadership skills
Demonstrated ability to lead organizations through significant change, including operating model, process, or platform transformation
Demonstrated AI First leadership: models responsible AI usage, sponsors enterprise AI learning, and drives AI enabled transformation across organizations
Preferred
Master's degree
Healthcare or regulated industry experience
Demonstrated background in engineering, architecture, or enterprise platform strategy
Experience leading Centers of Excellence or enterprise capability development (AI, Delivery, Agile, DevOps)
Recognized enterprise thought leadership experience (speaking, writing, communities of practice)
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Daniel Castillo
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Care Delivery
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Jay Green
Chief Financial Officer
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