At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities, and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable, and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We value innovation and ideation. We value diversity of thought. We value curiosity and eagerness. We value commitment to life-long learning. We value the ability to seek out a cross-discipline of knowledge and skills. We value the ability to communicate critical information up the chain; speak up effectively on critical issues. We value the incorporation of quality principles in everything we do to ensure optimal performance and impact. We value the ability to adjust plans and activities based on changes, quickly assessing options, and deciding on a course of action. We value the ability to consider the customer experience in all aspects of decisions and actions

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creating solution approaches, supporting refinement for features (working with business, solution architect and other application architects)
• Providing feature level T-shirt estimates
• Writing technical enabler features and user stories with acceptance criteria if required to support functional features, accepting technical enabler stories
• Presenting solution vision and providing guidance to scrum teams
• Recommending solution options weighing various factors to allow RAPID decision making when impacting business process, timeline or budget
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are addressed and continuously advocating/improving development practices to meet them
• Ensuring detailed designs adhere to architectural guardrails and high level approach
• Ensuring demonstrated code aligns with high level approach

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 8 years of strong hands-on experience with Java Enterprise Edition (Java/J2EE) and web technologies
• 8 years of experience in OO Design Principles, core OOPS, JEE Design patterns as well as their implementation in real world applications
• 6 years of technical experience with application integration: SOA, RESTful Web Services, microservices
• 3 years of experience in an architecture role, evaluating/implementing reference architectures, designing end-to-end, enterprise solutions across the complete systems development lifecycle
• 3 years of experience with the Spring frameworks
• 3 years of experience in web security, application security, web services security, common vulnerability remediation, certificate management
• 2 years of solid Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban and XP preferred)
• 2 years of DevOps and/or CI/CD experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to build technical roadmap along with T-shirt estimates to assist in planning
• Possesses capability to work on full business and/or technology stack
• Has extensive familiarity with many technologies and applies knowledge to drive enterprise direction

Soft Skills:

• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Has the ability to look for what others can’t see and drive a quality culture by example and encourage quality practices in others
• Is effective and efficient in use of resources
• Is an early adopter and supporter of changes
• Is open to personal growth and development, and inspire others to do the same
• Recommends innovation in digital and channel strategies and engages appropriate parties to influence change
• Builds, maintains, and strengthens teams, leading to reliable and consistent high performance
• Works productively and effectively in all directions --up, down, sideways, inside and outside -- to get great things done
• Provides guidance, assistance and consultation to others (i.e., SME, mentor)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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