Remote Senior Director, AI-Driven Software Engineering

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 159,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead strategic vision, modernize architectures, and drive high-impact enterprise platforms across the health tech ecosystem.

You will champion AI-powered software development, guide large multi-disciplinary teams, and partner with executive stakeholders to align roadmaps with business goals, while ensuring governance, security, and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering leadership and enterprise delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Strategically leverage advanced technologies and ML to solve complex challenges across the enterprise.
• Champion AI and modern engineering paradigms to shape architecture, deployment, and usage.
• Integrate enterprise tools and align team goals with emerging competencies.
• Champion ethical deployment with transparency, fairness, accountability, and security.
• Direct architecture, design, and implementation of scalable cloud platforms and modernization of legacy apps.
• Provide mentorship to engineering managers and teams to foster technical excellence.

Skills

Software leadership

Technical strategy

Generative AI

MLOps

Cloud architectures

Stakeholder engagement

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Undergraduate degree (CS/Data Science/Software Engineering)

Tools

LangChain

Vertex AI

RAG pipelines

AgentForce

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead strategic vision, modernize architectures, and drive high-impact enterprise platforms across the health tech ecosystem.

You will champion AI-powered software development, guide large multi-disciplinary teams, and partner with executive stakeholders to align roadmaps with business goals, while ensuring governance, security, and reliability at scale.