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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:

• Enhances system design/architecture to simplify and improve resiliency in system interactions and dependenciesContributes to or helps drive architecture/design, technology, and tool decisions and implementations

• Implements and continuously improves agile software delivery, code management, and operations practices

• Mentors junior team members in modern engineering practices, technologies, and patterns

• Owns the technical debt backlog and high level plan

• Maintains current perspective on technology trends, applying that to personal and team capability growth. Actively participates in code review

• Evaluates quality processes and seeks opportunities to streamline

• Considers the customer experience, business impact and solution objective when managing risks and development and design of solutions

• Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to improve overall quality

• Identifies applicable security/data standards when reviewing requirements and recommends controls to ensure compliance

• Provides ideas on how technology can improve business processes; Incorporates business objectives when evaluating processes to remove redundancies and waste; Recommends solutions for multiple channels; Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations

• 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems or other technology-related fields

• 12+ years of software application development in Full Stack development and documentation experience with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, and resilience using front end technologies and database

• 6+ years of experience in .NET framework and related technologies such as ASP.Net, C#, .NET Core, etc.

• 6+ years of experience in Javascript framework, Angular, React and Jest Js.

• 6+ years of solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and design patterns

• 6+ years of experience with database technologies commonly used in .NET development, such as SQL Server or MySQL

• 4+ years of knowledge of web development technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks

• 4+ years of experience using TFS, Azure DevOps, or GIT tools for data solution management and delivery

• 2+ years of familiarity with Azure services and solutions, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS)

• Experience with database design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance

• Knowledge of agile development practices and DevOps principles

• Proficiency in database technologies commonly used at Azure, such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, etc.

• Knowledge of data storage, retrieval, indexing, and query optimization techniques

• Familiarity with database security, compliance, and disaster recovery best practices

• Understanding of data integration, migration, and synchronization processes

• Ability to maintain awareness of current engineering operations practices (e.g. DevOps, DataOps, SecOps, Data Science, Data Engineering), deepening expertise where most relevant to role and problem space

• Ability to reuse and/or develops for reuse complex components or capabilities to solve complex problems and needs

• Ability to enhance system design/architecture to simplify and improve resiliency in system interactions and dependencies

• Ability to contribute to or helps drive architecture/design, technology, and tool decisions and implementations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in container orchestration using Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

• Experience with technologies such as: HTML/Javascript, TestCafe, NodeJS, Git, JEST or SOA

• Experience in collaborating with DevOps teams for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

• Experience in applying design patterns to solve common software design challenges and improve code quality

• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker for creating, deploying, and managing containers

• Knowledge of container networking, storage, and security concepts

• Familiarity with container registries, container monitoring, and logging tools

• Understanding of microservices architecture and how it relates to containerization

• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot issues related to containerization and orchestration

• Proficiency in software design principles and patterns, such as SOLID principles, design patterns, and architectural patterns like MVC, MVVM, etc.

• Knowledge of anti-patterns and when to avoid certain design patterns based on specific requirements.

• Develop and sustain a mentality of life-long learning through ongoing investigation and investment in new coding, technical and operational skills and 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.