Chief Technology Officer, Provider Market - Optum Insight

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The Chief Technology Officer role for the Optum Insight Provider Market will be accountable for leading and implementing the technology vision and plan for a $4B business, whose mission is streamlining hospitals and physician's workflows using technology, data, analytics, consulting and managed services solutions. Core to the Provider Market is Optum Real. Optum Real is an AI powered, real time claims and revenue cycle platform designed to connect payers and providers in real time (before a claim is submitted) to reduce denials, rework, and administrative costs.

We are looking for a technology leader with demonstrated thought leadership in architecting and delivering large scale, complex and innovative technology solutions using advanced technologies. You will leverage your technology expertise and understanding of market trends to develop a multi-year strategic technology plan that enables the scaling and growth of our business and deliver differentiating values to our customers. You will lead a global team of over 2000 technologists and a budget of $330M.

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

Hybrid in MN/DC: This position follows a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead strategic technology discussions and planning with the Provider Market CEO and executive team to drive and influence the creation of innovative technology strategy and solutions

• Architect and design technology solutions to enable integration of business and technology priorities and enable the Provider Business to reach their operating objectives

• Champion and implement AI-first product and engineering excellence, agility, and engineering culture

• Develop and lead multi-disciplinary and high-performing teams

• Collaborate across the Optum Insight (OI) technology leadership team to drive overall OI technology strategy

• Foster a culture of innovation through design-thinking and utilization of DevOps, Agile, AI/ML, and automation

• Understand business, market, and customer needs (in partnership with the general managers of the product area), for both today and the future

• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products, including the feature sets, business requirements, and measures of success of an overall roadmap, aligned with business strategy, and customer needs and informed by competitive intelligence

• Engage with the market (buyers, end consumers, delivery partners) to lead and manage the design of products, solutions, and service strategy that is market driven

• Establish a shared product, solution, and service vision across the enterprise by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution, and ensure that the product, solution, or service is aligned with OI's brand, strategic and competitive position

• Oversee the end-to-end process for the delivery of technology solutions

• Attend external client meetings representing the engineering and technology discipline

• Partner and guide cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of solutions from concept through launch

• Participate in stakeholder planning and strategy meetings and ensure the correct parties are aware of the strategic direction, risks, progress, and results

• Drive ROI and obtain value from technology related capital expenses including support for costs and benefits included in the business case

• Ensure solid performance of applications, cloud infrastructure, and data center services within proper security, regulatory, and compliance guidelines

• Scale engineering staff and skills to meet business growth goals

• Cultivate future leaders and enable an autonomous culture

• Develop and maintain relationships with appropriate technology partners (internal and external) in developing, deploying, and supporting technical solutions

• Support business acquisitions by providing leadership in the evaluation of technology platforms and post-acquisition integration planning

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:

• 20 + years career within the technology profession, with demonstrated progressive accomplishments

• Visionary leader with executive presence in the healthcare industry

• Proven software engineering and architecture leadership experiences

• Demonstrated success using a DevOps model/culture and Agile methodology to deliver solutions

• Experienced in modern software engineering technologies and practices such as AI/ML, cloud engineering, micro-services, CI/CD and DevSecOps

• Proven technology product development experience

• Success building strong relationships with internal and external partners

• History of gaining support for initiatives through influence and use of business rationale

• Ability to explain complex technical issues to key stakeholders in business terms

• History of building and inspiring high performing, innovative, global technology teams

• Previous experience leading highly matrixed teams

• Promotes teamwork and manages individual and organizational performance towards business goals and objectives

• Proven ability to make and implement tough decisions

• Demonstrated understanding of corporate financial disciplines - budgeting, reporting and P&L

• Organizational proficiencies to oversee multiple initiatives simultaneously in a fast-paced environment under limited supervision with excellent follow-through on detailed tasks

• Track record of presenting to C-Suite audiences

• Consultative approach to building consensus

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $225,000 to $375,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

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