Software Engineering Lead

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, Test, & Deploy medium to large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives
• Designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value
• Collaborate with the team on application architecture design and decision-making
• Design and implement application enhancements in collaboration with different teams
• Develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business. Provide alternate design solutions along with project estimates
• Troubleshoot production issues post release deployment and come up with solutions. Be able to solve complex production issues
• 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
• 7+ years of experience in full Software Development Life Cycle (Requirements/Design/Development/Testing/Deployment)
• 7+ years of experience working as a Java/J2EE developer using Spring framework
• 5+ years of Web Service / API / Microservices development in REST and SOAP experience 
• 5+ years of database experience (MySQL/PostGres/DB2/Oracle)
• 3+ years of UNIX commands experience
• 3+ years of experience in working in Agile methodology
• 3+ years of experience in using Java Messaging services (MQ), WMQ, Kafka or similar
• 3+ years of experience in Jenkins/Terraform, Springboot, deployments in Cloud (Azure/AWS/OpenShift) env
• 3+ years of experience in monitoring logging and tools such as Splunk/Kibana, Prometheus/Grafana, DTSaaS etc.

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.