Optum is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system. Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their health care needs and stay on track with their health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. At Optum, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.
Optum Digital is an organization dedicated to delivering simple, effective and comprehensive solutions to organizations and consumers across the whole health system. By understanding our customers, members and patients' needs and putting them at the center of everything we do, we improve experiences and outcomes for everyone we serve while reducing the total cost of care. In this role, the CTO, Optum Store joins a team that is dedicated to leveraging data for personalized care and critical decision making so care can be delivered when and where people need it most.
Reporting to the SVP, Optum Experience, the CTO, Optum Store will serve as a key leader for the B2C eCommerce experience called Optum Store. This role will work closely with teams across Optum Technology and the Optum business to build a platform that meets our customers how and where they want to be met.
In this newly created leadership role, you will serve as the technical leader for a focused team that will need to be built and continue to grow, to ensure we drive a shift to an engineering culture. You will be accountable for the end-to-end Optum Store (eCommerce) technology capability. Specific responsibilities will include:
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM
Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $169,500 to $322,500. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, in addition to your salary, UHG offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; paid parking or public transportation costs; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; business travel accident insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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.
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Optum Digital is an organization dedicated to delivering simple, effective and comprehensive solutions to organizations and consumers across the whole health system. By understanding our customers, members and patients' needs and putting them at the center of everything we do, we improve experiences and outcomes for everyone we serve while reducing the total cost of care. In this role, the CTO, Optum Store joins a team that is dedicated to leveraging data for personalized care and critical decision making so care can be delivered when and where people need it most.
Reporting to the SVP, Optum Experience, the CTO, Optum Store will serve as a key leader for the B2C eCommerce experience called Optum Store. This role will work closely with teams across Optum Technology and the Optum business to build a platform that meets our customers how and where they want to be met.
In this newly created leadership role, you will serve as the technical leader for a focused team that will need to be built and continue to grow, to ensure we drive a shift to an engineering culture. You will be accountable for the end-to-end Optum Store (eCommerce) technology capability. Specific responsibilities will include:
- Driving technical strategy and direction
- Owning software engineering, reliability engineering, system/solution/application architecture, dev/ops, end to end technology service and best practice adoption
- Providing leadership for a large technical team, with a focus on talent management, employee engagement and growing /developing the team
- Partnering with all parts of Optum Technology to develop, deliver and support high quality software products; and leverage technical contribution/components to the platform
- Transforming team to a DevOps model / culture
- Driving Agile best practices across stakeholders
- Participating in the creation of technology roadmaps and architecture guidelines
- Incorporating existing enterprise technology standards and capabilities into solutions as applicable
- Leveraging metrics and best practices to drive continuous improvement/transformation
- Creating and managing to a financial plan
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Required Qualifications:
- 15 + years of technology leadership experience
- Demonstrated success leveraging technology to meet business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to engage with C-level stakeholders (business and technology) and external clients
- Ability to establish effective working relationships with executives and key business partners to drive a change agenda
- Experience leading global technology teams and work with joint-development partnerships
- Track record of delivering high quality technology solutions using Agile methodology
- Experience developing technology platforms and applicable operating models
- Proven end-to-end technical product life-cycle management for applications and platforms
- Broad technology experience, including Digital solutions
- Experience deploying and supporting highly scalable technology solutions
- Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective
- Experience working in a large, global, matrixed environment
- High level of emotional intelligence
- Outstanding collaboration abilities
- Strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills
- Track record of delivering business results
- eCommerce, Java-based solutions background
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience moving from legacy platforms to open source and/or cloud-based
- Success driving a shift to a DevOps / Agile delivery model
- Healthcare industry experiences
- HIPAA data privacy and security knowledge
- Direct to consumer solution experience
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM
Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $169,500 to $322,500. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, in addition to your salary, UHG offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; paid parking or public transportation costs; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; business travel accident insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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.
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