Sr Dir, AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering - Remote

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $203,200 - $348,400/year

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United Health Group 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.

As the Senior Director of AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering within Global Technology Services (GTS) at Optum Technology, you will lead the strategic vision, platform architecture, and operational engineering of enterprise AI infrastructure. Our mission in GTS is to be client-obsessed, strengthen our foundation, accelerate innovation, and prepare our technology organization for the future. In this executive engineering leadership role, you will connect AI/ML engineering requirements with high-performance compute and platform services across both cloud and on-premises environments.

By driving operational and engineering excellence, you will build secure, resilient, and highly available AI platforms that accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deliver exceptional client experiences, and cultivate top-tier engineering talent.

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:

Define and drive the strategic enterprise architecture for AI infrastructure and platform services across cloud and on-premises environments

Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered platform and infrastructure solutions to address complex enterprise business challenges with an emphasis on responsible AI practices

Connect AI/ML engineering needs with scalable compute, storage, high-speed networking, and platform capabilities

Provide solution engineering and architectural leadership for high-performance on-premises, hybrid, and cloud AI hosting environments

Evaluate emerging trends in AI hardware, specialized compute platforms, and engineering frameworks to inform solution design and drive strategic innovation

Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools and modern platform practices to streamline engineering workflows, automate infrastructure management, and drive continuous operational improvement

Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams, building a solid culture focused on technical excellence and talent development

Partner across Global Technology Services and cross-functional technology teams to ensure consistent, reliable, and simple-to-use platform experiences

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:

10+ years of technology engineering experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, or distributed systems architecture5+ years of leadership and management experience directing technical engineering organizations3+ years of experience architecting and deploying AI/ML infrastructure, compute platforms (e.g., GPUs, specialized AI accelerators), or high-performance compute environments

Demonstrated experience designing and delivering on-premises or hybrid enterprise…