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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

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. Impact of work is most often at the operational or local business unit or market level.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with Business, Technical and Strategic Product Leads to manage project commitments in an agile framework; rapidly delivering value to our customers via technology solutions

• Manage IT staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, capacity planning, employee development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions

• Own the applications technology stack and drive modern solutions to complex problems

• Drive design and development of resilient, reliable, scalable and self-healing solutions to meet and exceed customer requirements

• Improve delivery efficiency and cost effectiveness by driving automation of manual tasks and processes

• Collaborate with leaders across partner-teams to drive cohesive and optimal solutions

• Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Mentor the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of experience in areas of product / software development and delivery

• 3+ years of managerial level experience in leading small teams on fast paced projects

• Experience in software design and experience with tradeoffs to balance between delivery priorities and delivery quality

• Hands-on experience with SQL Procedures & Packages, SQL Queries, Cursors and Optimization Techniques

• Experience with cloud technologies

• Experience with a variety of modern open-source technologies (Kafka, Kubernetes)

• Broad technology experience, including complex systems integration

• Solid Java, J2EE development experience

• Solid technical development experience on effectively writing code, code reviews, best practices on configuration management and code refactoring

• Solid grasp on computer science concepts and fundamentals

• Knowledge of CICD, Security & Vulnerabilities: Maven, Jenkins & Service Now API integration for auto deployments, Stargate, Fortify, Sonar and Twistlock

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.