What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer position at UnitedHealth Group?
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 communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together
Primary Responsibilities:
- Architect solutions, applications and components in an agile environment
- Leverages the latest technologies and tools to solve complex problems facing the health care industry
- Performs complex conceptual analyses, develops innovative solutions, provides explanations and information to others on the most complex issues
- Deliver high quality solutions through effective design, development, implementation, and code reviews
- Work on full stack application development involving creation of APIs, big data platforms and data ingestions components
- Assisting with the automated creation of development application stacks
- Deploying data pipelines in production based on Continuous Delivery practices
- Ensuring high quality solutions by implementing unit tests and supporting the creation and design of integration, load, and user acceptance tests
- Coordinates with QA around test planning, automation, and execution
- May lead functional or segment teams or projects
- Reviews work performed by others and provided recommendations for improvement
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience
- 12 years of full SDLC experience
- 6 years coding experience with JVM based languages (Java/Scala/Groovy)
- 2 years experience with SQL and working on databases like Oracle, PostGres, mongodb/nosql
- Experience creating and maintaining APIs using open source frameworks like SpringBoot, Play
- Proven experience delivering software using an Agile/Scrum methodology
- Experience developing and deploying solutions on AWS/Azure/GCP Public Cloud platforms, preferably azure
- Experience in secure development practice
- Experience in functional programming
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Healthcare
- Hands-on experience in developing analytics with machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and/or other related modeling techniques
- Experience using advanced data science tools such as Python, R, SQL, Spark and H2O
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.
