Senior 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 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.

Technologies for this Project:

• C#, .Net Core
• Angular / React
• Open-Source Tools and Framework
• Azure Public Cloud
• Git Actions
• Git
• Sonar

Primary Responsibilities:

• Staying plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and applying them into operations and activities
• Large and more complex components, while influencing overall Data architecture and patterns
• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands-on design sessions
• Code reviews are appropriately broken down in to reviewable chunks
• Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
• Continues to receive guidance in own code reviews primarily around solution refinement, rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
• Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
• Solves more complex problems. API's / Data Structures/ Data Models/Algorithms/ Application Sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable and performant
• Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
• Delivers solutions with the appropriate toolset (languages, algorithms, patterns and frameworks) for the constraints and conditions of the business, team and product
• Choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt, in alignment with sprint and program goals
• Incorporates automation in testing, build, and deployment processes to drive team efficiencies
• Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes demonstrating measurable improvement
• Work with internal stakeholders, get their priorities, build alignment on prioritization and synthesize them into quarterly roadmap for the platform
• Very good understanding of agile software development practices and role of product management in the same
• 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. Education: Bachelor's Degree in technical field OR equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of Java development experience, Solid understanding of Testing practices, mocking, TDD, Good understanding of good coding principles
• C#, .Net Core with Angular / React experience
• Open-Source Tools and Framework experience
• Experience with Modern continuous integration, build, version control tools
• Experience with Design Patterns and good design principles
• Experience with cloud technologies
• Solid experience in development using C#, .Net Core Web API and Angular and/or React
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Solid experience in DevOps best practices in cloud native environment
• Good knowledge of Entity Framework Core
• Familiarity with dependency injection / inversion of control.
• Familiarity with general database principles and ORM tools, Previous experience performing code reviews, Solid experience with RESTful principles and/or web services.
• Proven excellent problem-solving skills, understanding of Data Structures

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare knowledge
• Solid understanding of product management principles - prioritization, preparing roadmaps, cross-functional team collaboration
• Good high-level understanding of building software platforms
• Proven modern Java frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL or other SQL based databases
• Proven continuous integration tools like Team City and build tools like Ant or Maven. AWS cloud technologies

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.