Senior Engineering Manager - Stratus Imaging Archive

Optum; Richmond; Vor Ort; CAD 109.000 - 225.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Optum is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Stratus Imaging Archive to lead multiple software teams, drive delivery of cloud-native imaging data platforms, and advance AI integration across the development lifecycle.

Ideal candidates have extensive engineering leadership experience in large, regulated environments, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and enterprise-scale implementations.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years in software engineering management
• Experience leading multi-team organizations of 20+ engineers
• Experience delivering cloud-native customer-facing software at enterprise scale
• Experience in cloud-native design and best practices
• Experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms
• Experience with GCP (AWS/Azure acceptable)

Aufgaben

• Lead multiple software engineering teams for the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
• Own delivery execution, planning, and dependency management
• Identify and mitigate delivery risk and drive corrective action
• Ensure release readiness including reliability, scalability and observability
• Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to improve velocity and quality
• Collaborate with Architect and Product to deliver AI within product capabilities
• Lead continuous improvement of engineering practices and delivery quality
• Represent engineering during customer escalations and coordinate cross-team efforts
• Partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Security and Operations
• Develop and grow engineering leaders through coaching and mentorship
• Scale teams through hiring, onboarding, and staff augmentation

Kenntnisse

Cloud-native design

Engineering leadership

GCP/AWS/Azure

Data platforms

Enterprise imaging

Stakeholder management

AI in SDLC

Jobbeschreibung

Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Job Description - Senior Engineering Manager - Stratus Imaging Archive (2381099)

Senior Engineering Manager - Stratus Imaging Archive - 2381099

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.

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams build and operate enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms that power modern healthcare workflows. The Stratus Imaging Archive is a foundational component of our Enterprise Imaging strategy, enabling secure, scalable, and interoperable management of medical imaging data across the enterprise.

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead engineering teams building and evolving the Stratus Imaging Archive product and play a critical role in advancing our cloud-native Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Enterprise Imaging strategy. This role is accountable for engineering execution, people leadership, customer engagement, and cross-organizational collaboration to deliver reliable, high-quality imaging solutions at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
• Own delivery execution and planning, ensuring clear commitments, dependency management, and predictable outcomes
• Identify and mitigate delivery risk early, driving transparency and corrective action
• Ensure operational readiness at release, including reliability, scalability, observability, and support handoff
• Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to improve engineering velocity, quality, testing effectiveness, and delivery predictability
• Collaborate with Architect and Product to deliver AI within product capabilities, translating opportunities into scalable, reliable, customer-facing value
• Drive product innovation in close collaboration with Product, advancing new capabilities that strengthen the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
• Lead continuous improvement across engineering practices and delivery to improve quality, efficiency, and operational outcomes
• Serve as the engineering representative for the product during customer escalations, providing leadership and cross-team coordination
• Partner closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and development partners (e.g. Google) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions
• Develop and grow engineering leaders and teams through clear expectations, coaching, and talent development
• Experience scaling teams through recruiting, onboarding, and staff augmentation

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:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering management role
• Experience leading multi-team engineering organizations of 20+ engineers, either directly or through engineering leads/managers
• Experience leading teams through the full product lifecycle — from building cloud‑native customer‑facing software to operating it at enterprise scale
• Experience in cloud‑native design, principles, and best practices
• Experience designing, building, and operating large scale data platforms or data intensive distributed systems
• Experience in GCP (AWS/Azure acceptable)
• Experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Proven ability to own and lead engineering escalations with customers, from triage through resolution
• Demonstrated understanding of the business domain, customer workflows, with the ability to translate domain knowledge into engineering and product decisions
• Proven solid influencing, persuasion, and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution
• Demonstrated experience balancing customer commitments, product roadmap priorities, operational reliability, and technical modernization
• Demonstrated commitment to building a stronger organization — investing in hiring, mentorship, engineering culture, and continuous improvement beyond immediate project needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading multiple teams and/or managers in complex, regulated environments or medical devices
• Solid domain experience in Enterprise Imaging, Radiology workflows, or Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) platforms
• Experience driving AI adoption within engineering teams to improve productivity, code quality, or delivery velocity
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards including DICOM, HL7, and FHIR

Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $108,500 to $225,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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 a registered service mark of UnitedHealth Group, Inc. The UnitedHealth Group name with the dimensional logo, as well as the dimensional logo alone, are both service marks for the UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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