Opportunities at Change Healthcare , part of the Optum family of businesses. We are transforming the health care system through innovative technology and analytics. Find opportunities to make a difference in a variety of career areas as we all play a role in accelerating health care transformation. Help us deliver cutting-edge solutions for patients, hospitals and insurance companies, resulting in healthier communities. Use your talents to improve the health outcomes of millions of people and discover the meaning behind: Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

If you are interested in building AI systems at a company that provides highest quality of care to millions of people and brings efficiency into healthcare system, then we should talk. Change Healthcare is looking for a Senior Manager in AI Engineering team which is part of Enterprise Technology organization. This role will require you to lead and mentor highly technical areas and a capable team in implementing solutions in partnership with various business units across Change Healthcare. This role is completely remote with only occasional travel for business meetings.

As a leader for AI Engineering team, you will work with leaders across various business units, Product Management and Data Scientists to deliver high quality AI solutions. You will lead planning and execution of multiple initiatives working with a team of smart engineers. As a leader you will also drive improvements in engineering practices, governance, and quality to achieve best business outcome and team productivity. Besides charting a technical path, you will get to work with passionate and solid professionals across the board by creating lasting partnerships.

Ideal candidate has experience and passion to lead Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practice in supporting data scientists. Has a solid understanding of ML and AI toolkits and processes such as MLFlow, Model Monitoring, GitOps-style CI/CD, data catalog, feature stores, etc.

The candidate will be on a solid path for succeeding in this role when:

• Bring deep experience building ML/AI solutions at scale and leading large teams that care about making a positive impact
• People leader. You thrive in hiring, nurturing, and growing high performing business focused teams
• Good planner and can lead your teams in delivering multiple initiatives simultaneously for short term and long term success of stakeholders
• Strive for continuous improvement of architecture and engineering practices. You pursue best practices for your team to excel in what they do
• Team player and excited about cross collaboration with stakeholders, partners and peer leaders in engineering and business to make an impact
• Foster an open, respectful, collaborative culture. Bias to action, customer-obsessed, always willing to go extra miles to meet customers’ needs
• Good mentor and coach who helps engineers on the team to achieve their best potential
  

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

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:

• 8+ years of working in Data/ML platform engineering and large-scale distributed systems. Hands on experience in recent past is a big plus
• 5+ years in direct leadership role leading teams of architects and senior engineers
• Extensive experience with hiring, growing, and building high performing and large sustainable teams
• Experience building data and/or AI systems on Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud
• Proven exceptional communication and leadership skills, with proven abilities to operate in a fast-moving environment
  

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with Healthcare domain
  

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only : The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $101,200 to $184,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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

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.




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.