Senior Director Data Engineering

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Lead the engineering, platform, data, AI, and operations capabilities that support enterprise workforce and workplace technology, enabling analytics, automation, AI, and digital employee experiences across Optum Corporate Systems for Human Capital, Finance, Workplace, Analytics, and AI initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own enterprise workforce and workplace platforms: Lead the technology platforms that support employee, workplace, Human Capital, Finance, analytics, and AI experiences across Optum Corporate Systems
• Drive enterprise data and AI strategy: Shape the roadmap for data products, AI enablement, and workforce intelligence capabilities that improve decision-making and productivity
• Lead AI-first engineering transformation: Embed AI-driven engineering practices, automation, and modern delivery models into the software development lifecycle
• Develop platform strategy and roadmaps: Define clear modernization, investment, and execution plans aligned to enterprise priorities and business outcomes
• Deliver measurable business outcomes: Translate technology execution into improved efficiency, better employee experiences, cost optimization, and enterprise value
• Lead global engineering organizations: Manage distributed engineering, product, data, and operations teams across geographies with strong delivery discipline
• Provide executive stakeholder leadership: Partner with senior leaders across business, HR, Finance, Workplace, and technology functions to align priorities and secure support
• Drive operational excellence: Improve reliability, productivity, financial discipline, governance, and delivery performance across the portfolio
• Lead platform modernization efforts: Advance cloud, data, application, and experience modernization to reduce complexity and improve scalability
• Build leadership capability and succession: Develop strong engineering leaders, strengthen talent depth, and create sustainable succession plans
• Accelerate enterprise innovation: Introduce new capabilities, practices, and technologies that help the enterprise move faster and deliver differentiated outcomes
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 18+ years of progressive overall experience

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.