Manager of Software Engineering

Requisition Number: 2357839
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.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technology leadership to a strong engineering team
• Come up with long term architecture roadmap for the existing products
• Develops pioneering approaches to emerging technology and industry trends
• Define, use and communicate design patterns and best practices
• Provide technology leadership to the team. Mentor and guide them whenever required
• Communicate with internal and external business partners. Should be able to handle Onshore/Offshore model
• Act as the liaison between Business and Developers and project management groups
• Present and evaluate design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production Support readiness reviews for new releases, provide inputs for Go/No Go decision
• Support QA, UAT and Release phases of the project via defect analysis, change maintenance, etc
• Closely working Business Teams, Onshore partners, deployment and infrastructure teams
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Impact of work is most often at the local level
• 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.

AI Builder Responsibilities:

• Use GenAI tools (Copilot, Claude, Gemini AI) to ideate, prototype, and implement features efficiently
• Apply Vibe coding techniques to maintain clean, expressive, and AI-augmented codebases
• Develop internal tools and scripts using AI to automate repetitive tasks and improve productivity
• Stay current with emerging GenAI trends, tools, and ethical considerations

Required Qualifications:

• B.Tech/BE/MCA with 11+ years of experience - working on multiple layer of technology
• Experience in multiple application and web servers (J2EE tech stack, JBoss/Tomcat/WebSphere)
• Solid 7+ years of experience in UI related technologies (ReactJS, Angular, JQuery, Smart Components etc.), must have experience in building UI components for an enterprise
• 4+ years working experience in set up or maintenance of CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, test, build , deployment and monitoring automation)
• 3+ years of working experience on Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, AKS, Dockers etc.)
• 2+ years of working experience in Multitenant Cloud application development / micro-services architecture and deployments
• 2+ years of working experience on AWS/or AZURE - Experience of at least one application migration to Cloud platform
• Significant experience in design and architecting solutions
• Full stack hands-on engineer who can implement key product features
• Hands-on implementation experience, should be able to design, implement key product features, be an active part of an Agile Scrum team
• Common security vulnerabilities, their causes and implementations to fix the same
• Security scanning methodologies and tools (e.g. HP Fortify, Whitehat, Webinspect etc.)
• Splunk, New Relic, Sonar
• Open Shift, working experience on Private cloud, Hybrid Cloud Model, Deep understanding on design principal of Cloud Architecture
• Terraform Scripting / Kubernetes
• Good technical skills to understand complex designs, implement big and complex systems
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven excellent in design thinking and approach to solve business problem by applying suitable technologies (cost efficient, high performance, resilient and scalable).

Preferred Qualifications:

• AI Builder mindset, experienced in Azure AI, MS CoPilot Studio, Prompt Engg., GitHub Copilot, Gen AI,RAG frameworks

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.