Sr Dir, 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.

UHC Technology is focused on driving change, modernization, and ensuring reliable and stable systems so that we can help to transform health care - making it easier, more affordable, and more effective for those we serve. We are passionate about technology and the role it plays to create distinctive experiences to our constituents. While we are always focused on how technology can help us deliver faster and with improved quality, we are far more enthusiastic about the ways technology can reinvent how we deliver on our mission in partnership with the UHC lines of business and Optum Technology.

The Senior Director, Software Engineering provides enterprise wide technical program and delivery leadership, overseeing multiple portfolios and major transformation initiatives. This role defines delivery strategy, drives cross organizational alignment, and ensures execution across teams advances enterprise objectives. The Senior Director manages complex dependencies, long range plans, and multi team integration while partnering with senior engineering, product, and business leaders to deliver predictable, high quality outcomes.

As an AI First enterprise leader, the Senior Director accelerates responsible AI adoption at scale, sponsors AI capability building, and modernizes operating models so teams can integrate AI into workflows, decision making, and value delivery.

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:

Program & Portfolio Leadership

• 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

Executive Alignment & Cross Functional Leadership

• 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

AI First Leadership & Responsible Adoption

• 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

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 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 Qualifications:

• 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.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $159,300 to $273,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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