Optum ยท 2 days ago
Vice President, Digital Engineering
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$200K/yr - $344K/yr
15+ years expOptum is a global leader in health care innovation, developing solutions to enhance health systems. The Vice President of Digital Engineering will lead a large Product Engineering team to create transformative digital experiences for healthcare stakeholders, ensuring the integration of AI and maintaining compliance with healthcare regulations.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Define and execute a long-term engineering vision aligned with the company's digital health strategy and growth goals
Build, lead, and scale a high-performing global engineering organization with a culture of innovation, accountability, and inclusion
Recruit and mentor senior engineering leaders, fostering both technical and people management capabilities
Ensure the use of AI tools to drive increased developer productivity
Lead the development of robust, scalable, secure, and user-friendly consumer-facing applications accessed by millions of users
Ensure product performance, reliability, and uptime meet the highest standards for public-facing systems
Drive technical decision-making that enables speed, scalability, and flexibility across the stack
Oversee the integration of AI/ML-driven features (e.g., personalized recommendations, NLP, intelligent triage) into consumer products
Partner with data science and product teams to deliver data-informed user experiences that support improved health outcomes
Ensure responsible use of AI, including data ethics, explainability, and alignment with healthcare regulations
Ensure all systems are designed and maintained in accordance with HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other relevant regulatory standards
Collaborate with Security, Legal, and Compliance teams to implement privacy and risk mitigation best practices
Proactively identify and address risks related to data integrity and information security
Manage delivery timelines, budgets, team structures, and prioritization across complex product portfolios
Establish and measure KPIs, engineering health metrics, and delivery benchmarks to drive continuous improvement
Implement and evolve best-in-class software development practices, DevOps, and infrastructure operations
Partner closely with Product, Security, UX, and Executive teams to ensure technical strategy supports overall business and member-impact goals
Act as a strategic voice for engineering in company-wide planning and decision-making
Qualification
Required
15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years serving in senior engineering leadership roles
Proven track record building and scaling consumer-grade digital products with millions of users
Experience leading geographically dispersed engineering teams of 100+ people across multiple time zones through other leaders (including prior experience having Senior Directors as direct reports)
History of success improving developer productivity with AI tools
Demonstrated expertise in Agile methods, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), microservices architecture, DevOps, and application security
Excellent communication, influence, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred
Experience building AI solutions at scale in production environments
Prior experience upskilling a team relative to AI
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Daniel Castillo
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Care Delivery
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Jay Green
Chief Financial Officer
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