Lead Software Engineer - Remote

Optum is a global leader in health care innovation, seeking a Lead Software Engineer to contribute to cutting-edge solutions in the healthcare domain. The role involves defining architecture and design patterns for Identity Platform solutions, providing technical vision and leadership, and integrating AI and ML capabilities into identity workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Define architecture and design patterns to ensure consistent, scalable, and efficient implementation of Identity Platform solutions
• Provide technical vision and engineering leadership for identity management across multiple platforms and ecosystems
• Ensure all solutions comply with enterprise IT principles, security standards, and healthcare regulations (HIPAA, TEFCA, CMS Interoperability)
• Lead intake scoping, solution concept development, and initial cost estimation, including logical-level system architecture definition
• Create end-to-end architecture blueprints, covering integration of applications, systems, platforms, and technical infrastructure
• Collaborate with solution engineering, development teams, partners, and vendors to maintain a coherent and consistent approach to design, implementation, and integration
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, including reference implementations, reusable design patterns, and best-practice guidelines
• Integrate AI and ML capabilities into identity workflows for adaptive authentication, fraud detection, and risk-based access control
• Design and implement AI-driven security analytics to detect anomalies, predict threats, and automate incident response in large-scale environments
• Develop machine learning models for identity proofing, behavioral risk scoring, and continuous authentication
• Architect data-driven security monitoring systems leveraging AI for real-time threat hunting, predictive analytics, and automated remediation
• Research and adopt proactive AI-based security strategies, such as anomaly detection, threat modeling, and autonomous policy enforcement
• Enable Agentic Identity frameworks, allowing AI agents to act under controlled, auditable delegated identities for secure automation
• Incorporate conversational AI and NLU into identity platforms for guided user experiences, troubleshooting, and self-service authentication flows
• Establish AI governance and compliance controls, ensuring transparency, explainability, and bias mitigation in identity-related AI models

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on technical experience in implementing secure enterprise applications using cloud technologies
• 6+ years of relevant experience in Identity & Access Management and Information Security
• 6+ years of experience with identity protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML) and integrating AI into these flows
• 6+ years of experience with Identity federation, Single Sign-On, RBAC, ABAC, MFA, RBA
• 6+ years of experience in Threat, Vulnerability & Risk management, Infrastructure security
• Hands-on working experience with SailPoint, ForgeRock, Ping, Okta, OneLogin, Azure AD or similar IAM products
• Knowledge of security data platforms (Splunk, ELK) and applying AI for log analysis
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) and AI services (Azure AI, AWS SageMaker)
• Hands-on experience with security management of virtual machines, containers, and applications
• Demonstrable experience in Site Reliability Engineering and DDoS mitigation techniques
• Knowledge of SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• Working knowledge of Scripting languages (Python and PowerShell)
• Solid working knowledge of Web Application Firewalls, HTTP(s), TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, Forward and reverse proxies, Load balancers
• Solid understanding and development experience on Java, SpringBoot, RESTful Web Services and Microservices
• Good understanding of the web application architectures, TCP/IP networking, cloud computing and data integrity and confidentiality including cryptographic techniques
• Exposure to graph-based identity risk models and anomaly detection algorithms
• Proven solid communication skills and presentation skills, leadership skills, problem solving and analytical skills