[Hiring] Senior Manager - Software Engineering (Enterprise Imaging) @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

The Senior Development Manager will lead 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.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within Canada (except for the Saskatchewan province) as you take on some tough challenges.

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

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, balancing people development, execution, and delivery accountability
• Experience in leading and building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems 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)
• Demonstrated ability to represent Engineering in customer-facing engagements and escalations
• Solid influencing, persuasion, and negotiation skills, including conflict resolution

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 with AI code assistance or Agentic coding practice
• Knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards including DICOM, HL7, and FHIR

Benefits

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.

Company Description

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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