Senior Software Engineering Lead

Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The health solutions marketplace is hungry for new ideas, innovative products and software that drives elevated performance for the business and the customer. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is feeding incredible solutions to that marketplace every day by bringing out the best in our software engineering teams. We serve customers across the health system. Not only do we have more of them every day, we also have more technology, greater data resources and far broader expertise than any competitor anywhere. We're out to change the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. If you're in, you'll be challenged like never before.

This role is equally challenging and rewarding. You'll need to stay positive at all times especially in difficult situations. You'll be asked to mentor, challenge, and communicate effectively with all different types of people.

As the Engineering Lead in our Development team, you will work closely with a team of highly skilled software engineers focused on enhancement and support of our Human Capital software applications. This role combines strategic thinking, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to manage a team responsible for the day-to-day execution of our product development requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Code/develop/configure robust, configurable, and scalable solutions that fulfill customer needs and resolve user issues
• Conceptualize integration solutions to make both large and small improvements to the Human Capital integrations landscape
• Understand functional requirements and business needs and fully incorporate them into high-quality, low-defect solutions
• Support functional and technical testing
• Plan and execute deployments and releases
• Mentor junior developers and provide technical leadership across projects.
• Implement and support data transmission solutions using modern technologies including APIs
• Analyze behind the scenes data using SQL queries
• Utilize application of modern software engineering practices to ensure high-quality solution outcomes
• Ensure non-functional requirements are incorporated into solutions such as performance and availability
• Create reusable, shared code whenever possible
• Work within an agile development/delivery framework
• Focus on improvement of agile development metrics including Time to Build (TTB) and Time to Value (TTV)
• Develop integrations across multiple technologies
• Initiates and implements strategies to embed quality practices in culture
• Quickly identify defect root causes and drive towards resolution
• Drives code reuse minimizes redundant development by use of pattern-based approach
• Uses critical thinking mindset to ensure all possible outcomes are accounted for in preventing operational issues (I.e. failure points)
• Work within an agile development/delivery framework
• Coordinate improvement of agile development metrics including Time to Build (TTB) and Time to Value (TTV)
• Approach the role with a learning mindset with drive to learn new technologies and programming languages
• Leverage AI capabilities within Oracle HCM Cloud to build a high-quality integration framework, enabling intelligent automation, enhanced data flow, and predictive insights across HR systems
• 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 regard 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:

• Must have full time Graduation Degree
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle HCM development using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• 7+ years of PL/SQL development experience
• 7+ years of experience developing reports using BI Publisher (BIP) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)
• 7+ years of hands-on SQL development experience
• Sound knowledge in developing and consuming APIs (SOAP, REST).
• 5+ years of delivering products and value within an Agile-development framework
• Experience in developing and consuming APIs (SOAP, REST)
• Experience with data integration technologies and tools such as HDL, HCM Extracts, and BICC
• Solid expertise in Oracle HCM Cloud modules and architecture
• Solid understanding of data modeling, performance tuning, and debugging

Soft Skills:

• Solid communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2025 Certified Application Integration Professional certification