VP of Engineering - Optum Insight Payer Market

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As VP of Engineering for the Optum Insight Payer Market, you will serve as the senior-most technology leader for one of Optum Insight's largest businesses - spanning payment integrity, risk and quality, claims administration and payer operations technology serving the nation's leading health plans, including UnitedHealthcare and external payer clients. Reporting to the CIO for Optum Insight Payer Market, you will own technology vision, strategy, architecture and engineering execution for a global, matrixed organization of several hundred engineers and a substantial technology P&L.

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

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

Technology Vision, Strategy & Architecture

• Drive technology vision and strategy behind consistent delivery and execution; translate business strategy into a multi-year technology roadmap with clear right-to-win logic, sequencing and ROI validation
• Lead the architecture practice across cloud, security, data and platform architecture, ensuring alignment to PADU, platform-thinking, data federation and interoperability standards (FHIR, X12, EDI)
• Rationalize and consolidate the platform landscape: converge overlapping agentic and automation platforms onto one to two strategic AI chassis, eliminate duplicate builds, and make decisive build-vs.-buy calls at the foundry/platform layer
• Enable both efficient federated delivery and creation of reusable accelerators, with a single source of truth for portfolio and intake to prevent parallel, redundant investment

AI/ML & Agentic Transformation

• Partner closely with product and business stakeholders to identify use cases, derive CBAs, and manage program status and value reporting against committed financial baselines
• Lead both centralized and federated delivery of AI use cases, focused on business value extraction - spanning claims, payment integrity, risk and quality, and payer operations
• Define and institutionalize an AI-native SDLC: methodology selection, team composition, role evolution, productivity KPIs and tooling-by-role; scale forward-deployed engineering and digital workforce capability across the portfolio