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 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:

• Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
• Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness
• Implement small and large scale implementations of projects with E2E delivery
• Drive technical discussions and design solutions
• Technically coach the team members and provide real time solutions to complex problems
• Adherence to code quality standards, development best practices, defect-free code delivery
• Collaborate and Communicate effectively with other engineers and onshore team
• Partner with business and enterprise architecture team to understand requirements and design/develop end to end solution
• Practice agile solution delivery & influence teams towards engineering best practices such as DevOps / CICD / Everything as a code
• Follow engineering best practices and coding principles for successful delivery of program/project
• Partner closely with global teams to implement the design
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• 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 or equivalent experience
• Experience in building applications on Spring Framework or related web frameworks
• Experience in Multi-threading, Spring Boot and Micro-service Architecture
• Experience in working CI/CD/CT environment with unit test automation, pipeline based code deployments etc.
• Experience working on distributed and highly scalable environment
• Experience on Databases, SQL programming and SQL Query Skills 
• Working experience in various Cloud environment [one or all] – Azure, GCP, AWS
• Solid working experience on Highly Scalable Data applications 
• Solid experience in Java 8-17 / J2EE, Solid in Java Concurrency, IO and Collections, JPA Framework, database query, REST API design / SOAP Web Services
• Good understanding on Messaging services preferably Kafka streaming
• Good understanding of Development processes and tools – Sonar, Jenkins, GitHub, TDD, Security vulnerabilities 
• Expertise with JUnit, TestNG, or any other test framework. JUnit test cases and knowledge on DevOps toolchain 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Advanced degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in any observability frameworks such as Splunk/Graffana/Kibana etc.
• Experience in DWH or Data mart
• Experience in working on Unix/Linux and any one scripting language
• Solid technical and data platform knowledge

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.