Software Engineer Lead – Azure cloud with Programming Language

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Application Development: Building cloud-based applications, especially on Azure, ensuring seamless integration and connectivity of resources
• Technical Solutions: Providing different solutions and connecting various resources without issues
• Working with stakeholders to understand the modifications they wish to apply to their current systems
• Analyzing current systems to find flaws that can jeopardize cloud security
• Uploading business information to a cloud computing platform and setting up simple retrieval mechanisms for data
• Staying updated on advancements in the field of cloud computing to advise businesses and clients on industry best practices
• Increasing cloud storage capacity to store more files and crucial corporate data
• Ensuring the protection of data in computer systems by working with cybersecurity and IT staff
• Troubleshooting issues pertaining to cloud application failure or security flaws
• Creating and installing cloud computing solutions in accordance with client or employer requirements
• Automating specific system operations to enhance efficiency and speed
• Testing designs to find and fix mistakes and make system improvements
• Evaluating and identifying the best cloud solutions in collaboration with engineering and development teams
• Developing, establishing and implementing modular cloud-based applications
• Locating, evaluating and fixing infrastructure risks and deployment problems
• Periodically evaluating computer systems and offering suggestions for performance enhancements
• Offering support and guidance to meet customer requirements
• Managing ServiceNow tickets assigned to the team
• Maintaining and managing Linux servers, including OS and application patching and upgrades
• Be able to write automation scripting using bash, Python
• Analyzes and investigates
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of cloud development, troubleshooting enterprise level
• 7+ years of demonstrated IT experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications resolving complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations
• Experience in QA or Testing concepts and processes
• Hands-on experience in setting up and managing production environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven/Gradle, Sonarqube, Git) for deployment process
• Proven solid troubleshooting & debugging skills (security, monitoring, server load, networking)
• Proven analytical skills
• Proven ability to build and run SQL queries to extract data and compare reports and compare data across multiple reports for consistency

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in Data Platform and Bigdata: SQL IaaS, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL HDInsight/Hadoop, Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability
• HealthCare domain knowledge

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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