Technical Lead - Enterprise Platform (Hybrid, Ireland)

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Optum is seeking a highly experienced technical lead to provide engineering leadership across a portfolio of modernized enterprise applications in Ireland. The role blends hands-on technical work with strategic direction, ensuring secure, scalable, and production-ready software across frontend, backend, APIs and data systems.

You will guide cross-functional teams, set architectural standards, and collaborate with product, security and infrastructure stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven significant software engineering leadership experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and governance for AI-enabled coding and testing.
• Understanding of AI-generated code risks, security, and technical debt.
• Experience enabling developers to use AI tools while maintaining quality standards.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting complex enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of frontend, backend, API, and distributed systems architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native development and automated delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership across the application portfolio.
• Establish and maintain technical vision and architectural direction.
• Guide teams in design decisions ensuring security, scalability and reliability.
• Support production-readiness, performance, observability and operational planning.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders.
• Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Review complex implementations for risks and architecture quality.

Skills

Leadership

AI tooling

TypeScript

Cloud

Security

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

Optum is seeking a highly experienced technical lead to provide engineering leadership across a portfolio of modernized enterprise applications in Ireland. The role blends hands-on technical work with strategic direction, ensuring secure, scalable, and production-ready software across frontend, backend, APIs and data systems.

You will guide cross-functional teams, set architectural standards, and collaborate with product, security and infrastructure stakeholders.