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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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum AI is chartered to drive value on high impact enterprise AI problems, democratize AI through the enterprise ML platform, accelerate the adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and drive Responsible AI. Projecting to deliver $8.4B of benefit value over the next 5 years through these efforts as well as reduce risk through safe, accurate, and unbiased AI, this is a key focus of the enterprise.

As an individual contributor, as the Principal Engineer, you will lead the execution of multiple United AI Studio (UAIS) pillars while laying out the technical vision. You will guide and motivate a team of engineers to not only deliver products/solutions but also meet key metrics. Working in collaboration with the product owner, architects and engineers, the Principal Software Engineer, will drive the creation of the Enterprise AI/ML platform.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Raise the bar on excellence in execution in terms of quality, timeliness, and scalability

• Take accountability for key engineering metrics of the platform specifically availability, reliability, and security

• Develop and evolve engineering and product roadmap of UAIS

• Collaborate across various lines of businesses as well as global locations to ensure smooth execution of critical projects across the board

• Drive talent transformation as per the needs of business

• Recommend applicable technical patterns and solutions that are aligned with architectural guiding principles and standards through a regular cadence of delivery and continuous improvement initiatives

• Deep technical expertise to review designs and architectures

• Drives technology modernization activities with architects and engineering teams including a shift to modular, data centric, open-source, and cloud-native technologies

• Governs technical debt and promotes balance with technical

• Achieve architectural objectives through influencing of product, capability, and engineering backlogs

• Work closely with technical product owners in plotting required enablers to support business feature teams on the architecture runway, ensuring full lifecycle delivery through CI / CD pipeline

• Improve engineering culture of the team

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any STEM discipline

• 10+ years of software engineering experience including developing algorithms using Data Structures, and practical applications of these to build software systems

• 5+ years of experience in working in cloud-enabled solutions in Azure, AWS or GCP

• 5+ years working in AI/ML engineering domain

• 5+ years of experience working with an Agile development methodology

• 2+ years expertise working in cloud security and ability to build highly secure enterprise platforms

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in cloud-enabled solutions in Azure

• Experience building an Enterprise ML platform

• Proven proponent of metrics & Engineering best practices, and demonstrable track record of addressing engineering efficiency bottlenecks

• Proven success in collaborating with geographically distributed teams

• Proven solid project planning and execution skills including estimating, scheduling, and executing on committed schedules

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $122,100 to $234,700 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.