Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
About the role:
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
Todays' RCM is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem — payers, providers, and patients.
As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in OptumInsight, you will be both a technical and people leader within a growing team of talented software engineers in Ireland, the US and India working on developing a new state of the art, cloud based, enterprise clinical data collection, storage, and distribution platform for UnitedHealth Group, serving 90+ million people and 100 other payers beyond UnitedHealthcare. This role will involve managing and working with distributed, global teams with multiple stakeholders.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coach your direct reports, actively assist them in developing a fulfilling career whilst providing impactful value through technology to the members we serve in the healthcare system.
- Support your team’s architectural and technical decision-making
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn vision into a roadmap
- Maintain a solid culture of engineering excellence with the user experience at the centre, focusing on CI\CD, DevOps, TDD, SRE, Security monitoring, etc.
- Maintain open, inclusive and unbiased communication and decision-making practices
- Drive engineering quality and maintain impeccable SLAs
- Define, plan and drive improvements in the design, coding practices and technology
- Hire astounding engineers
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and training
- Strong desire to learn about new trends and technologies
- Demonstrated solid communication and interpersonal skills
- hands-on experience working in Azure cloud platforms or other cloud platforms
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
- Ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required
- Experience in managing through goals and metrics
- Experience in a similar role mentoring software engineering professionals
- Experience delivering software using an Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience in CI\CD environments with Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub and Containerization
- Full stack knowledge, from deployment ops and database technologies through to front end frameworks preferably in Java or Python
Preferred Qualifications:
- Senior level software development background in object-oriented design and implementation including design patterns, data structures and test-driven development
- Strong experience in automating build processes, application deployments and continuous integration systems.
- Working knowledge of APIs
- Experience with SQL, relational and graph databases
- Experience with messaging systems
- Experience in the health care industry
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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 marginalised 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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
