Sr Software Engineering Manager - Remote or Hybrid in MN or DC

Role Summary

Provide development and architectural guidance for the Rx Payment Modernization agenda within OptumRx Technology, supporting vendor delivery and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise standards. This role involves hands-on engagement in architecture and design decisions, along with technical oversight of internal and third-party engineering teams, with a focus on validating implementations and ensuring delivery quality. The role will evolve to owning the new product, driving implementation of business enhancements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Application Design
• Own cloud and solution architecture across the application including Azure, microservices, APIs, data
• Define and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns, frameworks, and guardrails to enable consistent and accelerated delivery
• Lead architecture and design reviews, clearly articulating tradeoffs, risks, and long-term implications to technology leadership
• Drive performance, resilience, security, and operational excellence through architectural design
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Business to translate business needs into scalable solutions
• Act as design authority for vendor delivered solutions, ensuring adherence to Optum architecture, security, and engineering standards
• Govern vendor execution through design approvals, technical checkpoints, and delivery reviews
• Serve as technical escalation point for complex cross-team issues
• Support production readiness, incident analysis, and remediation, ensuring vendors meet SLAs and quality expectations
• Monitor security findings and vulnerabilities, driving timely remediation with vendors and internal teams
• Provide engineering authority, focusing on design quality, best practices, and technical standards
• Participate in code and design reviews to guide design and engineering practices

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure management, application design, architecture, or application delivery
• 3+ years of experience in legacy modernization and cloud-based data modernization
• Experience with modern technology stacks, including: Cloud platforms (Azure preferred), Java and Spring Framework, GitHub Actions and DevOps pipelines, MongoDB and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React), Data engineering tools (ADF, Databricks)
• Experience working with vendor-managed delivery - Understand implementations at a technical level, validate and verify technical deliverables and milestones
• Hands-on technical role, requiring active involvement in validating architecture, solutions, and delivery milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years exposure to digital transformation initiatives (migration from legacy to modern technology stacks)
• Exposure to high-volume, transaction-based systems