Senior Technical Lead - Enterprise Apps & AI (Hybrid)

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is seeking a highly experienced technical lead to steer engineering for a portfolio of modernized enterprise applications. You will guide architectural direction, ensure secure, scalable, and production-ready software, and mentor teams across applications, API, data, and cloud concerns.

The role requires hands-on leadership with a focus on AI-assisted development, security, and reliability. You will collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure stakeholders in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering experience in lead/principal roles.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and governance for AI-enabled coding, testing, documentation, code review, and architecture decisions.
• Understanding of AI-generated code risks including security, reliability, and maintainability implications.
• Experience enabling developers at multiple levels to effectively use AI tools while maintaining ownership and standards.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern frontend, backend, API, and distributed systems architecture.
• Proven experience with TypeScript and modern web frameworks, server-side apps, and API development.
• Experience leading modernization, migration, or platform rebuild initiatives.
• Understanding of scalability, reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational readiness principles.
• Experience with cloud-native development and automated delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership across the application portfolio.
• Establish and maintain the technical vision and architectural direction.
• Guide teams in sound design and implementation decisions.
• Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability requirements.
• Promote consistency across applications, services, and shared components.
• Review significant designs and high-risk changes.
• Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and risks.
• Support delivery planning and technical trade-offs.
• Define and reinforce engineering standards and practices.
• Improve automated testing, CI, and release confidence.
• Guide debt management and modernization priorities.
• Support production-readiness and operational planning.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and stakeholders.
• Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Document important decisions and system knowledge.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues.
• Remain hands-on to validate patterns and critical code.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software architecture

AI-assisted tooling

Cloud-native development

Security and observability

Mentoring

Tools

TypeScript

APIs

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted coding tools

Job description

Optum is seeking a highly experienced technical lead to steer engineering for a portfolio of modernized enterprise applications. You will guide architectural direction, ensure secure, scalable, and production-ready software, and mentor teams across applications, API, data, and cloud concerns.

The role requires hands-on leadership with a focus on AI-assisted development, security, and reliability. You will collaborate with product, security, and infrastructure stakeholders in a hybrid