Manager Software Engineering – Big Data / Cloud – Chennai

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:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance, feedback, and support for professional growth
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and operations, to define project requirements and goals
• Ensure high-quality engineering practices and maintain technical standards within the team
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Develop and implement long-term strategies for engineering initiatives that align with the company’s goals and objectives
• Manage the engineering team’s workload and resource allocation to optimize productivity and efficiency
• Implement best practices for software development, testing, and deployment
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation within the team
• Encourage and support the exploration of new tools, technologies, and methodologies that can enhance the team’s capabilities
• Thought Leadership: Propose and implement best in class architectural solution for big and complex systems
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related STEM discipline
• 5+ years of software development (hands-on coding/building software) in distributed systems
• 4+ years of hands-on-experience using cloud native offerings in AWS (preferred), Azure

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.

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