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 communiOptum 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.

The primary responsibility of Software Engineer Lead  is to develop software solutions in accordance with assigned projects and sprint goal. They will  also works closely with the Technical Manager and Project Manager/Scrum Master towards backlog and user story refinement. Senior Software Engineer shall have deep and mature understanding of complete software development life cycle and shall possess demonstrable ability to work independently.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Analyzes and investigates Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise Software Development - Complete programming and system analysis tasks as assigned by Technical Manager Design and Estimate - Based on requirement definitions, recommend solutions with pros and cons. Create design documents with estimates of time to complete Work with Technical Manager to review requirements and design documents to ensure that project deliverables are met Project Delivery - Identify and communicate issues or risks with project deliverables Willing and actively seek areas of applications and products to take ownership and accountability Recommend possible technical solutions for issues and/or problems encountered when work on a project Application Support - On an as needed basis, provide user support for business applications. Effectively communicate with users to answer questions and resolve urgent requests Advise the Technical Manager on information technology matters Work with less experienced staff in mentor role to help them improve their development skills and craft Bring “continuous improvement” and learning mindset to the team and encourage learning and professional growth in others 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 or equivalent work experience 5 - 7 years IT experience in a software development environment Experience in system design and building secure distributed applications Proven analysis, design, and programming experience Experience in project management Solid technical knowledge in Microsoft .NET and related technologies Ability to understand database structures and be able to manipulate, extract, and update data Proven to possess excellent written and oral communication skills Technology Skills:
Extensive experience in web services, Web Api, RESTful services, microservices and API security best practices Experience developing windows services Experience creating stored procedure, database views, triggers, indexes Understand the concepts and best practices of DevOps and modern CI/CD Clear and demonstrable understanding of Object Oriented Programming and distributed system architecture .NET, C#, ASP.NET JavaScript, TypeScript, JQuery CSS3, HTML5, AngularJS, Angular 15+, and other modern web development frameworks

Preferred Qualifications:

Technology Skills: .NET Framework 3.5 - 4.8, .NET Core, and .NET 5+ Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus – NServiceBus, MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka SOLID principles, Enterprise Design Patterns, Event Driven Architecture NUnit, Test Driven Development (TDD) NHibernate, Dapper, Entity Framework or equivalent ORM experience IIS (or equivalent) SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SRSS) Agile development experience using SCRUM XML, XSLT, PowerShell

Additional Experience

Ability to follow and adhere to UnitedHealthcare Student Resources programming standards Ability to quickly analyze requirements and recommend multiple solutions with pros and cons Ability to see the big picture and the impact of changes to all parts of the system. Ability to quickly code and test the changes

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.