Vice President, Software Engineering - Optum Care at UnitedHealth Group in Eden Prairie, MN

Optum Care is a nationwide health care delivery organization that is reinventing health care, unlike anyone else in the market place, to help keep everyone healthier and feeling their best. In all we do, we are committed to the quadruple aim - improving patient satisfaction, lowering costs, delivering quality outcomes and increasing provider satisfaction.

In this newly created engineering leadership role, you will be accountable for building, scaling and optimizing a national operating model and technology platform supporting multiple Regions, Markets and Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) across the country.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with key business and technology stakeholders
• Driving automation, modernization and simplification agendas, including migrating solutions to cloud-based platforms
• Leading engineering teams focused on data integration across internally developed applications and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software with both internal and external partners
• Assessing and recommending vendor products/tools
• Providing support and participation in development of business requirements (through the lens of Facets data integration) to ensure business needs are captured and delivered
• Building and developing agile engineering teams
• Defining and building integration solutions
• Participating in global and detailed design sessions
• Providing data sharing thought leadership for the organization
• Ensuring security, scalability, operational excellence and data sharing platform stability
• Collaborating with integration partners to define and evolve data sharing options
• Leading the overall delivery for data integration
• Creating written and oral communication materials that effectively summarize findings, support fact-based recommendations and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions
• Maintaining work papers, project deliverables and other artifacts that can be leveraged as intellectual capital
• Performing project management duties including the creation of status reports, work plans and presentations
• Directing quality engineering, scalability and performance testing efforts
• Conducting research studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending and presenting data and recommendations
• Developing financial models and tools, including cost-benefit analysis, resource utilization models and performance reports

Candidate will possess:

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• 15 + years of direct experience leading technology organizations
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• Demonstrated experiences in Systems Integration, Data Modeling/Data Management and Information Security
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• 10 + years of healthcare systems experience
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• 10 + years of project management experience, including proven success overseeing large projects/programs that require problem identification, data synthesis, creation of recommendations and implementation skills
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• 5 + years of Agile development experience
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• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines
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• Track record of success integrating diverse organizations and leading performance improvement efforts
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• History of success building, managing, developing and retaining high functioning teams
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Desired experiences:

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• Knowledge of healthcare core administrative systems and databases
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• Provider, Clinical and/or Payer operations (Claims, Provider, Clinical, Product, Enrollment, Billing, Service, Care Management)
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• Experience overseeing/leading global teams both on and offshore
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• Cloud migration experience
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