Senior Manager Software Engineering

UnitedHealth Group; Hyderabad; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group invites a senior architect-leader to Hyderabad to steer enterprise web and cloud solutions, aligning architecture with business strategy and regulatory requirements. You will drive security, scalability, and performance across platforms while mentoring engineers and collaborating with senior architects.

The role requires deep expertise in .NET, Angular/React, Azure cloud, and AI/ML, with a focus on delivering robust, scalable products and achieving business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in the industry with enterprise web/cloud experience.
• 10+ years designing and maintaining large-scale web/cloud apps.
• 8+ years managing software development teams.
• Hands-on with Azure/AWS/GCP clouds.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, TDD.
• Cloud-based app development, preferably Azure.
• API-driven stacks and microservices architecture.
• Proven CI/CD and DevOps practices with Docker/Kubernetes/GitHub Actions.
• .NET and .NET Core stack expertise.
• Security/authentication patterns; NextAuth.JS familiarity.
• Expert Angular + Azure cloud tech; performance and scalability focus.
• Strategic product/architecture planning and customer roadmap alignment.
• Strong networking knowledge and full-stack .NET (C#, Angular, React, TS).
• AI/ML and Generative AI experience; RAG, embeddings, vector DBs, LangChain.

Responsibilities

• Builds complex enterprise ecosystems and guides governance for engineering best practices.
• Designs enterprise-level solutions connecting multiple platforms with security standa rds.
• Extracts business value from non-standard data and aligns teams to strategy.
• Produces high-level design docs and defines architecture runway for 1–5 year horizon.
• Communicates with executive leadership and technical stakeholders.
• Collaborates with Platform/Application Architects to build robust cloud-native products.
• Optimizes web apps for performance across devices and platforms.
• Mentors engineers to grow the team’s capabilities.
• Ensures compliance with employment contracts and company policies.

Skills

Azure Cloud

AWS/GCP

Microservices

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

.NET / .NET Core

Angular

React

REST APIs

AI/ML & Generative AI

LangChain / LangGraph

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Team leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

CI/CD tooling

Azure DevOps

Job description

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.

Primary Responsibilities

• Builds complex enterprise ecosystems and solves high-level strategic issues. Decision maker for final recommendation from multiple solution options. Provides governance to ensure engineering best practices are followed
• Designs solutions at enterprise level connecting multiple platforms. Identifies relevant security standards that apply to own work and adheres to protocols. Understands security risks & implications when evaluating solutions
• Draws correlations from non-standard data sets and uses broader inferences to drive business value. Ability to understand how different parts of business work together
• Produces high-level design documents that clearly state the intent/goal and helps team to understand the guardrails. Understands how to produce documents iteratively. Able to define architecture runway for the program for strategic direction with 1 to 5year horizon
• Communicates and negotiates direction with executive leadership and technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with senior technical stakeholders such as Platform Architects & Application Architects to design and implement robust architecture in the platform and support building robust products using Cloud technology and .Net/Java
• Optimizing web applications for maximum performance, compatibility, and responsiveness across various platforms and devices
• Expand your expertise by learning and solving problems beyond your core skillset, particularly
• Mentor and guide other engineers to develop and grow within the team
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience
• 10+ years of experience in designing, developing & maintaining large scale enterprise web, cloud applications
• 8+ years of experience in managing software development teams
• Hands-on experience in Designing, Developing and Managing solution in MS Azure/AWS/GCP Cloud platform
• Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development, etc.
• Experience in Cloud based application development, preferably on Azure cloud
• Experience with API-driven solution stacks, and microservices architecture
• Proven experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Expertise level of exposure to .Net and .Net Core stack
• Expertise in Authentication & Authorization solutions, patterns. Familiarity with NextAuth.JS
• Expert in modern Angular web & Azure cloud technology stack, Deep expertise of security, performance, scalability, reliability and feasibility in solution design. Stays current with evolving technologies and recommend use case for implementation
• Expert business knowledge and understand the product market. Defines strategic directions of business architecture, Decision maker for the identification/prioritization of solution from the various options provided by team. Deep knowledge of regulatory environment, sales and digital experience, and channel
• Deep knowledge of customer's product roadmap, Work with customers on their long term strategic technical roadmaps and guide in their decision making
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols
• Solid exposure to .Net Full stack product development using technologies like C#, Angular, React, Typescript, CSS, Rest API, SQL/No-SQL Database
• Proficiency over CI/CD pipelines, Azure/AWS/GCP, Github Actions, AI tools in SDLC
• Proven ability to drive strategic technology/engine reuse, technology and architecture health, and development process improvement
• Proven ability to evaluate tools/technologies and demonstrate through POC if required
• AI/ML & Generative AI
  • Hands-on experience developing AI/ML-enabled enterprise solutions
  • Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using vector databases, embeddings, document retrieval, and semantic search
  • Practical experience with LangChain and LangGraph for building AI agents, conversational applications, workflow orchestration, and intelligent automation
  • Solid understanding of Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and enterprise AI solution design
  • Expertise in Prompt Engineering techniques to optimize LLM performance for business use cases

Preferred Qualification

• Familiarity with Azure AI services such as Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, and Azure Machine Learning

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.