Senior Software Engineer II

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:

• Design, Development and Testing of Cloud Native APIs using SpringBoot, SpringCloud, GraphQL, and Kafka
• Engineer telemetry solutions, building cloud deployment platforms, and working across fully automated stacks in a CI / CD ecosystem
• Architecture, Design and Implement product features in collaboration with IT stakeholders
• Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
• Engineer innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
• Implement best practices, quality, architecture and coding standards of the project
• Ensure their team delivers value to customers
• Guide their team with company values. Abide by all the project and company guidelines and standards and to ensure that even the team members are doing so
• Reviewing the decisions, the team makes to ensure consistency and alignment with the vision
• Work on constantly increasing the productivity of the team and reducing the waste on the other end
• Lead the team successfully and set targets and expectations for the team
• Be an individual contributor (very hands-on) as well as able to guide and mentor team members
• Work on identifying the project risk and planning mitigation action with the PM at project level
• Create and implement risk mitigation processes and conduct security audits to determine weaknesses in applications
• Maintaining the project technical vision clear for everyone, from beginning to end
• Mentoring team members
• Team player and works well with team members
• 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:

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience Java Development with focus on back end
• 5+ years of experience writing API’s using core Java (utilizing frameworks like Spring Boot, etc.)
• 5+ years with Agile DevOps delivery model experience
• Experience in technical lead position and providing technical guidance to team
• Experience with container technologies (e.g. OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure)
• Experience with various frameworks (e.g. Splunk, ELK, etc.)
• Experience with engineering platforms at scale in public and private clouds
• Experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem 
• Data streaming experience with Frameworks like Kafka, etc.
• Knowledge of REST API design (including micro-services)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, XL Deploy/XL Release, etc.)

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.