UnitedHealth Group

Senior Engineering Manager - Stratus Imaging Archive

UnitedHealth Group$108K — $225K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years in software engineering
  • 3+ years in software engineering management
  • Experience managing multi-team organizations of 20+ engineers
  • Proficient in cloud-native design and best practices
  • Experience with large scale data platforms or distributed systems
  • Familiarity with GCP (AWS/Azure acceptable)

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple software engineering teams for the Stratus Imaging Archive
  • Own delivery execution and planning, managing dependencies
  • Identify and mitigate delivery risks early
  • Ensure operational readiness at release
  • Drive AI adoption to enhance engineering velocity
  • Collaborate with Architects and Product to integrate AI
  • Drive product innovation for the Stratus Imaging Archive
  • Lead continuous improvement across engineering practices
  • Serve as the engineering representative during customer escalations
  • Partner with multiple teams to deliver enterprise-grade solutions
  • Develop and grow engineering leaders and teams

Benefits

  • Clear direction on success in the role
  • Opportunities for development in other roles
  • Recognition for performance
  • A challenging work environment
  • Investment in hiring, mentorship, and engineering culture
Full Job Description
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams build and operate enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms that power modern healthcare workflows. The Stratus Imaging Archive is a foundational component of our Enterprise Imaging strategy, enabling secure, scalable, and interoperable management of medical imaging data across the enterprise.

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead engineering teams building and evolving the Stratus Imaging Archive product and play a critical role in advancing our cloud-native Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) and Enterprise Imaging strategy. This role is accountable for engineering execution, people leadership, customer engagement, and cross-organizational collaboration to deliver reliable, high-quality imaging solutions at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Lead multiple software engineering teams responsible for the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
  • Own delivery execution and planning, ensuring clear commitments, dependency management, and predictable outcomes
  • Identify and mitigate delivery risk early, driving transparency and corrective action
  • Ensure operational readiness at release, including reliability, scalability, observability, and support handoff
  • Drive adoption of AI across the SDLC to improve engineering velocity, quality, testing effectiveness, and delivery predictability
  • Collaborate with Architect and Product to deliver AI within product capabilities, translating opportunities into scalable, reliable, customer-facing value
  • Drive product innovation in close collaboration with Product, advancing new capabilities that strengthen the Stratus Imaging Archive platform
  • Lead continuous improvement across engineering practices and delivery to improve quality, efficiency, and operational outcomes
  • Serve as the engineering representative for the product during customer escalations, providing leadership and cross-team coordination
  • Partner closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and development partners (e.g. Google) to deliver enterprise-grade solutions
  • Develop and grow engineering leaders and teams through clear expectations, coaching, and talent development
  • Experience scaling teams through recruiting, onboarding, and staff augmentation


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:

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering
  • 3+ years of experience in software engineering management role
  • Experience leading multi-team engineering organizations of 20+ engineers, either directly or through engineering leads/managers
  • Experience leading teams through the full product lifecycle - from building cloud-native customer-facing software to operating it at enterprise scale
  • Experience in cloud-native design, principles, and best practices
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large scale data platforms or data intensive distributed systems
  • Experience in GCP (AWS/Azure acceptable)
  • Experience directly managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
  • Proven ability to own and lead engineering escalations with customers, from triage through resolution
  • Demonstrated understanding of the business domain, customer workflows, with the ability to translate domain knowledge into engineering and product decisions
  • Proven solid influencing, persuasion, and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution
  • Demonstrated experience balancing customer commitments, product roadmap priorities, operational reliability, and technical modernization
  • Demonstrated commitment to building a stronger organization - investing in hiring, mentorship, engineering culture, and continuous improvement beyond immediate project needs


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proven experience leading multiple teams and/or managers in complex, regulated environments or medical devices
  • Solid domain experience in Enterprise Imaging, Radiology workflows, or Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) platforms
  • Experience driving AI adoption within engineering teams to improve productivity, code quality, or delivery velocity
  • Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards including DICOM, HL7, and FHIR


Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $108,500 to $225,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

About UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group is a medical facility. They offer health technology, health finance, and pharmacy services. They are utilizing clinical data and intelligence to assist in the redesign, automation, and deployment of technology to streamline administrative operations and clinical decision-making. Payment systems for both consumers and providers are critical components of a health-care system.

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Net Income
$15.4 billion
Founded
1974
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+9.2%
Revenue
$257.1 billion
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