Job Description

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.

Senior Software Engineer belongs to Self-Organizing and Cross Functional development team and is able to convert sprint backlog items to shippable product. He/she collectively owns end to end development responsibility for a given Agile Team / POD. He/she will design, code and test the user stories committed for a sprint. Works independently under limited supervision. Possess skills to effectively deal with issues, challenges within field of specialization to develop application solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Team Player in an Agile team within a Release Team/Value Stream
• Develop and automate business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications
• Technically hands on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing
• Collectively responsible for end to end product quality
• Participates and contributes in Sprint Ceremonies
• Promote and develop the culture of collaboration, accountability & quality
• Provides technical support to team. Helps team in resolving technical issues
• Closely working with Tech Lead, Onshore partners, deployment and infrastructure teams
• Independently drive some of the product and pillar level initiatives
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of experience - working on multiple layer of technology
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Engineering Practices
  • Agile: Must have working experience of 3+ year in 'Agile team'
  • Data / Information Security: Good understanding of Data / Information security
  • Good in Data Structure, Algorithms and Design Patterns
  • Demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
• Common Technical Skills
  • Application Development:
    • Java
    • Python
    • Go Lang
    • React
  • DevOps:
    • Working experience in IAC using Terraform
    • Working experience in CI/CD pipeline (test, build, deployment and monitoring automation)
    • Knowledge of software configuration management and packaging
    • Knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle
  • Cloud: Experience or good knowledge of cloud platform (e.g. OpenShift, Azure, AWS)
  • Open Source: Demonstrate hands on knowledge of OpenSource adoption and use cases
  • Modern Infrastructure: Good to have knowledge in modern serverless and cloud managed infrastructure
  • Database: 5+ working experience of database (SQL or PL/SQL), Able to create database, write queries, stored procedures
• Product / Project / Program Related Tech Stack:
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Kubernetes Services
  • Azure SQL
  • Microsoft SSIS
  • Testing using Data Quality Framework
  • DevOps - Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Redis, Sonar, Fortify
  • Others - JMeter, Groovy, NewRelic
  • Development Methodology / Engineering Practices - Agile (SCRUM / KANBAN / SAFe)
• AI Skills:
  • Use GitHub Copilot for code, scripts, IaC
  • Solid prompting with MS Copilot Chat for research/troubleshooting
  • Use AI SDLC tools for user stories/tests
  • LLM prompting for complex analysis
  • Support AI infra for analytics/automation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in product engineering
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team with a positive team spirit
• Knowledge of US Healthcare domain

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.