Senior Manager- Software Engineering – Dublin or Letterkenny / Hybrid

Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the role:

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.
We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we’re on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.
As Development Manager, you will be the leader of the Stratus Imaging Analytics team. The Stratus Imaging Analytics team is focused on building our Analytics solution for our Enterprise Imaging portfolio.

The team is based in mainly in Ireland, with some resource in Canada. The products has customers in Europe, Canada, and the United States. You will be responsible for leading the team that is focused on the development of a solution integrating with multiple data sources (on-premise and Cloud) for Radiology and Cardiology.
We are looking for a leader that is focused on delivery of value to our customers, and who will also have a passion for innovation and improvement.

Are you someone who has passion on building solutions that will help enable improvement in healthcare through data and analytics?

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drive your team towards timely execution often with competing priorities. Work through technical needs vs. new feature requirements and be a key contributor in defining the product roadmap.
• Work in collaboration with Product Management partner to lead success of team and product.
• Own the release for the products you lead – your product ships when the customers are realizing its value.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, including resource allocation, timelines, and risk management strategies.
• Mentor and motivate direct reports towards their career goals and actively develop your team’s skillset and put together a deep bench through proactive conversations, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Hold teams to high standards in writing quality scalable and supportable code, complete with appropriate unit tests, automated testing, documentation, and operationalization aspects in a CI/CD environment.
• Provide support to functions outside of Product Development: Sales, Support and Service
• Lead by example and use your technical expertise and perspective to drive innovation
• Collaborate with Architecture, Data Science and Business Intelligence leaders to design and implement a secure, compliant, and scalable data infrastructure to support the organization’s growing data needs.
• Identify, design, and champion process improvements throughout the processing lifecycle for:

o Data quality initiatives ensuring data integrity
o Data encryption
o Data de-identification to ensure data security
o Role-based data access
o Automating manual processes
o Optimizing data delivery
o Tuning and optimizing data processes for greater scalability, etc.

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• MS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, other technology fields, or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing data engineering teams.
• Solid experience in data engineering leadership roles, preferably within the healthcare industry
• Strong Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies
• Experience in building complex, highly scalable, performant, secure and reliable software systems
• Experience in Cloud-native design, principles and best practices.
• Solid experience in data architecture, data modeling, data warehousing, and big data technologies.
• Proficiency with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent English communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong influencing, persuasion and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry knowledge and experience
• Experience with healthcare related data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, DPA, GDPR
• Data engineering certifications
• Data virtualization tools and technology experience with tools like such Tibco Spotfire, Tableau, Python Dash, R-shiny, etc
• ML and/or AI model development and deployment
• Prior experience leading teams
• Prior experience working with global teams

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.