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Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Remote

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 54602, USA
Listing for: Optum
Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-02-15
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Software Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 80000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products, and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations, and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies;
Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

  • Company thought leader
  • Functional SME
  • Broad business approach
  • Resource to senior leadership
  • Develops pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends

The Sr. Manager, Software Engineering serves as the technology leader working to ensure engineering operational excellence. The role is responsible for the overall operational excellence of the product area, consisting of 3-8 feature teams, to ensure we have high performing feature teams that are tackling the highest priority work and leveraging current development practices to deliver high quality features that align to the business needs.

You will focus on execution as well as serve as a mentor in leading through digital and organizational transformation.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Engage with product and technology leaders to gain understanding of the business strategy, vision and priority
  • Lead multiple engineering/feature teams & drive operational excellence
  • Implement Agile software development and automation across all technology platforms
  • Identify gaps in skills in your product and align those gaps to the upskilling curriculum, using influence to reprioritize as needed
  • Actively participate in all product area events (Daily Scrum, Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospectives)
  • Serve as a partner to the Product Owner (PO) to improve our operational excellence, identify areas of opportunity as well as celebrate successes
  • Serve as technical co-owner-in partnership with other product technical leaders-for the platforms, portals and systems that underlie our product areas
  • Partners with the PO, Lead Software Engineer (LSE) and teams when vulnerabilities, issues or remediations are required
  • Provides guidance to the teams during product refinement, analysis, solutioning, and delivery of the work
  • Regular 1:1s with all technical team members in the Product
  • Provide meaningful feedback to the Talent Advocates (people managers)
  • Provide an excellent onboarding experience for all new team members joining the product to include: team alignment, applications, processes, and tools
  • Observe and update policies related to our Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Assists the Scrum Masters and Feature teams in clearing large obstacles
  • Keep current with modern technologies and enterprise systems to maintain a wide body of knowledge; regularly teach concepts for colleagues
  • Serves as a mentor to colleagues with regards to developing strong business relationships and leading through organizational transformation

You'll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of experience in leading multi-faceted development Teams
  • 4+ years of experience in the implementation of Domain-Driven-Design and Event-Driven-Architecture
  • 4+ years of strong Experience in implementing microservices architecture
  • 4+ years of Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • 4+ years of experience in programming languages (e.g., .Net, Angular)
  • 4+ years of experience leading in an Agile organization
  • 3+ years of experience with Dev Ops practices and tools
  • 2+ years of experience with integration technologies, middleware, and protocols
  • 2+ years of experience with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and messaging systems
  • Experience creating & owning…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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