Manager Software Engineering

Requisition Number: 2369446
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.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers delivering high-quality software solutions
• Drive end-to-end delivery of projects from planning to production release
• Provide technical and people leadership, ensuring team productivity and growth
• Partner with Product, Design, and QA to align on roadmaps, priorities, and execution
• Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, and processes
• Oversee system design, architecture decisions, and scalability planning
• Conduct performance management, career development, and mentorship for team members
• Manage resource allocation, sprint planning, and delivery commitments
• Ensure on-time delivery with high quality and reliability
• Drive Agile practices and continuous improvement within the team
• Handle stakeholder communication and provide regular delivery updates
• Lead production support, incident management, and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD, and automation
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and performance standards
• Build a solid engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, and collaboration
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows, and decision-making
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows, and decision-making.
• 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 regards 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:

• Graduation/Post graduation - BTech/BE/MTech
• Experience working on Spring Boot, RabbitMQ
• Java (Spring Boot / Microservices architecture
• Experience working on Microservices
• Experience working on Reactjs

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.