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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:

• Serve as technical SME in architecture and design for commercial software development and the introduction of new technologies in the Public Cloud (AWS/Azure) and API Space

• Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices

• Provide design leadership in solving large or complex development of end to end software projects involving application development, migrations and additions to existing applications

• Build team engineering skills with extensive knowledge of Java application development architecture and hands on experience of Java /J2EE Technologies, Micro Services, Data Ingestion using Kafka, No SQL systems like Cassandra/MongoDB/Elastic Search and expose data via Graph resolvers

• Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry, evaluating emerging software technologies

• Responsible for research, evaluation, and identification of alternative approaches to support API development needs. Data Analysis and Profiling

• Recommends, designs and codes efficient and effective solutions for challenging problems for medium to large work efforts of medium to high complexity

• Complies with standards and guidelines related to the design, construction, testing and deployment activities within the Delivery Management environments

• 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 in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

• 6 + years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms

• Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.

• Experience with REST/ JSON APIs, Java, Spring, and Springboot, CLT, Microservices, Kafka, No-SQL Data Stores, Docker, Containers

• Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement

• Working Knowledge on public clouds like AWS, Azure and developing applications on Linux environments

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms and API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro -services architecture

• Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization

• Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure

• Experience with Automation Frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI, Neoload, Spock, Groovy

• Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks

• Experience in the healthcare industry

• Good understanding of Microservices architecture

• Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment

• Good understanding of GraphQL, resolvers

• Demonstrate being an avid supporter of the Open Source software community

• Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

• Display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

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.