Senior Director of AI‑Driven Enterprise Software

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid Dublin office/home

Job summary

Optum in Ireland is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership across a large-scale engineering organisation, focusing on modern software engineering, cloud-native architecture, and AI-enabled solutions.

This senior role shapes engineering strategy, guides multi-platform systems, and accelerates adoption of AI across products and engineering teams while upholding high standards and technical capability. Hybrid Dublin presence is offered.

Qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering experience with large-scale, multi-platform systems.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, managers, or principal engineers.
• Experience designing, developing and deploying AI-powered applications and ML systems.
• Experience with enterprise cloud platforms and modern architectures (microservices, API design, event-driven)
• Experience establishing engineering standards and driving DevOps/CI‑CD adoption.
• Experience within healthcare environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and technical direction for a large-scale software engineering organization.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of enterprise AI-powered solutions and platforms.
• Promote responsible and ethical use of AI across products and teams.
• Drive AI adoption and align hiring with AI competencies.
• Champion secure SDLC practices and modern development standards.
• Collaborate with business leaders to translate vision into scalable technology solutions.

Skills

Leadership

AI/ML

Cloud platforms

DevOps/CI‑CD

Healthcare domain

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Optum in Ireland is seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership across a large-scale engineering organisation, focusing on modern software engineering, cloud-native architecture, and AI-enabled solutions.

This senior role shapes engineering strategy, guides multi-platform systems, and accelerates adoption of AI across products and engineering teams while upholding high standards and technical capability. Hybrid Dublin presence is offered.