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Director - Engineering - 2245503

UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group

Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Aug 29, 2024

Opportunities with Episource, part of the Optum family of businesses. Join a premier provider of risk adjustment services, software and solutions that’s fueling innovation in the health care industry. Start a rewarding career where your work will empower health plans and medical groups with comprehensive end-to-end solutions designed to navigate health care efficiently. Our culture is rooted in innovation, encouraging our team to stay curious and engaged. By joining us, you become part of a global, remote/hybrid-friendly team dedicated to bridging health care gaps with a strong sense of social responsibility. At Episource, we are enriching lives, including those of our team members through Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Senior engineering leader for business intelligence in specific and multiple engineering managers from the vendor – resourcing channel in Asia in general. Considered a culture driver and responsible to support our values for their function. Nurture our leadership practices among the people manager and people resourced from the vendor across multiple teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Focus is on the success of the team/function, balancing obtainment of short and long term goals. Responsible for delivering against goals within budget. Advocates and positively impacts the success of our people
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
    • Establishes clear goals, provides direction, and allows others to determine how to realize the plan
    • Champions engineering roadmaps across the department with product counterparts while reducing significant technical debt
    • Manages cross-functional projects with leaders from ideation to completion
    • Identifies opportunities to introduce long-lived processes and frameworks to guide work while providing autonomy
    • Identifies inefficiencies in end-to-end system design while facilitating cross-department architecture
    • Establishes coding standards across multiple teams. Builds proof of concepts to prove out and discusses changes to code or technologies
    • Pragmatically applies testing philosophy across multiple teams, championing and facilitating department-wide test strategy
    • Establishes open, trusted and collaborative relationships throughout the organization, owning the alignment across the organization
    • Grows managers and our people, constantly raises the bar, improves the function operations, and collaborates across teams
    • Coaches and manages others through challenges, leading with empathy
    • Requires an individual to maintain the ability to work in an environment with PHI / PII data
    • May be assigned other duties
    • Must maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures
  • 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:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience; professional certification preferred
  • Over 5 years of people management experience and 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, preferably in the healthcare or technology industry
  • Solid technical background to understand the complexities of software development projects, evaluate technical solutions, and guide the teams effectively
  • Solid leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate engineering teams, resolve conflicts, and set clear goals
  • Proven highly skilled in coordinating with vendors and different resourcing teams, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards, and maintaining a positive working relationship
  • Proven excellent communication and interpersonal skills for collaborating with cross-functional roles and other teams and communicating with stakeholders
  • Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of regional nuances to foster a collaborative and inclusive global work environment
  • Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
  • Proven high level of ethics, integrity, discretion, and confidentiality

Preferred Qualification:

  • Experience in healthcare-related projects or working within a healthcare organization

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.