VP, Enterprise Platforms - Optum Financial Technology

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Job Description - VP, Enterprise Platforms – Optum Financial Technology (2391472)

VP, Enterprise Platforms – Optum Financial Technology - 2391472

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum Financial Technology is organized around three business-aligned domains — Commercial, Optum Bank and Consumer — sitting on one shared platform and one shared method. The VP, Enterprise Platforms owns the shared layer. This role leads the API and integration platform, the data platform, AI-assisted software development, the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence and the Agile Program Office into a single accountability for how Optum Financial builds software and what that software is built on.

The role has two halves that reinforce each other. The first is platform: building and scaling the capabilities every domain depends on, run as products with published interfaces, service levels and adoption metrics rather than as internal utilities. The second is method: leading the enterprise-wide product and agile SDLC transformation for Optum Financial, so that AI-assisted development, quality engineering and a genuine product operating model become how the whole organization works, not how a few teams work.

This leader operates as an enterprise steward. The platforms pay off when the domains adopt them, and the transformation lands when engineering leaders across the business domains change what they do day to day. Success is therefore measured on adoption, engineering throughput, quality and unit cost across Optum Financial as a whole — not on the output of the platform organization alone.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Owns the multi-year strategy, investment plan and roadmap for the shared platform layer of Optum Financial, aligned to the priorities of the Commercial, Optum Bank and Consumer domains.
• Runs every platform as a product — published interfaces, service levels, versioning, deprecation policy, self-service onboarding, and transparent adoption and consumption metrics.
• Resolves trade-offs across platforms, balancing net-new capability against the reliability, security and cost obligations of platforms already carrying production load.
• Sets build, buy and partner direction across the platform estate and consolidates overlapping tooling into a coherent, defensible stack.
• Leads through senior leaders, establishing clear accountability for delivery outcomes across platform and transformation teams in the US and India.

• Owns the API and integration platform as the standard connective tissue of Optum Financial, covering API design standards, gateway and lifecycle management, developer experience, discoverability and reuse.
• Drives adoption so that internal, partner, bank and client integrations run through governed platform interfaces rather than bespoke point-to-point builds.
• Ensures the platform is secure,…