Senior Manager Software Engineering

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates and implements project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for one or more medium sized projects of low to moderate complexity
• Prepares detailed statements of work and gains concurrence and approval from stakeholders regarding various project aspects and adjusts accordingly
• Participates in delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to project management policies and procedures
• Assists in the staffing of projects
• Organizes project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives
• Participates in work as applicable
• Manages costs, schedules, and quality by overseeing project deliverables
• Ensures schedule and budget are met
• Performs ongoing review of project status
• Identifies possible project risks
• Recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate
• Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to technical requirements, business requirements and schedule of the project
• Provides input on possible changes needed based on current project status
• Manages client, company, and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance by obtaining and providing project metrics
• Recommends changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics
• Assigns work and provides direction regarding timeliness and completion of project objectives. Addresses performance issues within prescribed guidelines
• Provides performance input upon completion of project
• 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 higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 14+ years of experience on J2EE, Sprig boot, Spring , Rest APIs development, REST Web Services, Application and Web Servers, Database, GIT, Maven, Sonar, Micro services
• 8+ years of experience in React JS, REST/SOAP Services with JSON/XML, Micro frontends
• Cloud experience
• Solid experience on Full stack Application development
• Experience on Cloud computing technologies
• Hands-on experience in working with standard DevOps tools:
  • Build automation tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Travis CI or equivalent
  • Build Tools such as Maven, ANT, Gradle or equivalent
  • Source control tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN or equivalent
• Good hands-on experience on MVC , SOA based applications, applications with high configurability
• Knowledge in automated testing tools such as Cucumber, Junit, Mockito, Selenium
• Cloud/Distributed architecture design patterns knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of system programming, Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
• Proven solid analytical skills and experience on proof of concept/MVP development
• Proven solid object-oriented programming skills
• Proven to be hands-on leader and should be able to optimize code and maintain good design practices
• Proven good team player and thought leader, change/innovation agents and self-starter on different techs
• Proven good team player, change/innovation agents and self-starter on different tech stacks 
• Proven good on design and application architecture principles
• Proven ready to take up any technical challenges and should be research oriented
• Proven adaptable and transformable to learn latest technologies as per business needs
• Proven strategic thinker and always updated on market trends
• Proven ability to comprehend requirements to create robust and resilient DB design
• Proven to provide guidance to team and provide status to senior management

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.