Sr Dir, Software Engineering - Remote

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 to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

UHC Technology is focused on driving change, modernization, and ensuring reliable and stable systems so that we can help to transform health care - making it easier, more affordable, and more effective for those we serve. We are passionate about technology and the role it plays to create distinctive experiences for our constituents. While we are always focused on how technology can help us deliver faster and with improved quality, we are far more enthusiastic about the ways technology can reinvent how we deliver on our mission in partnership with the UHC lines of business and Optum Technology.

The Senior Director, Software Engineering provides enterprise wide technical program and delivery leadership, overseeing multiple portfolios and major transformation initiatives. This role defines delivery strategy, drives cross‑organizational alignment, and ensures execution across teams advances enterprise objectives. The Senior Director manages complex dependencies, long‑range plans, and multi‑team integration while partnering with senior engineering, product, and business leaders to deliver predictable, high‑quality outcomes.

As an AI First enterprise leader, the Senior Director accelerates responsible AI adoption at scale, sponsors AI capability building, and modernizes operating models so teams can integrate AI into workflows, decision making, and value delivery.

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.

• Set the enterprise delivery strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, OKRs, and long‑range priorities
• Oversee multiple portfolios, ensuring coordinated planning, prioritization, and sequencing across teams, systems, and business units
• Guide capacity, demand, and forecasting conversations to support sustainable, predictable enterprise delivery
• Govern portfolio level prioritization, ensuring unified backlogs and transparent trade‑off decisions
• Anticipate and resolve systemic risks and dependencies, partnering with architecture and engineering to address structural constraints
• Establish delivery governance, KPIs, and dashboards that provide executives visibility into performance, risk posture, and value realization
• Lead high‑impact cross‑organizational initiatives requiring coordination across internal partners and external stakeholders

• Represent delivery strategy and progress in executive forums, clearly communicating risks, needs, and outcomes
• Influence senior leaders across technology, product, operations, and business domains to maintain shared priorities and coordinated execution
• Provide guidance through ambiguity, transformation, and organizational change, ensuring teams receive consistent direction
• Strengthen collaboration across teams to drive integration, operational cohesion, and efficient flow of work

• Champion an AI First culture, setting expectations for leaders and teams and ensuring alignment with enterprise AI governance
• Sponsor AI upskilling at scale (e.g., AI Literacy, AI Dojo, leadership enablement), ensuring teams understand how to apply AI confidently and safely
• Drive adoption of AI enabled operating models, integrating AI into planning, delivery, workflow redesign, and decision making
• Establish responsible AI guardrails, reinforcing ethical standards, legal compliance, and risk management
• Modernize organizational ways of working by enabling teams to use AI to improve workflows,…