Senior Manager Software Engineering – Mainframe

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:

• Manage complex Mainframe as well as Distributed applications. Solid Healthcare knowledge
• Engineering management, Stakeholder management, Product design, development & maintenance
• Understand various disparate views of the system
• Design and develop the framework of the system and be able to explain choices made. Also write and review design document explaining overall architecture, framework and high level design of the application
• Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Come up with architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design
• Implement the defined SSMO delivery process/guidelines like Problem Management, Incident Management, Change Management, SLA Compliance, productivity and other application goals etc.  
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production Support readiness reviews for new releases
• Drive stakeholder discussions (business customers, IT partners) along with Service Managers/Service Directors for understanding business needs
• Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements
• Participate in meetings/walkthrough session/group meetings to understand business problem/objective of project
• Act as a gatekeeper for production and analyze each and every code and infrastructure changes going in to ensure the quality
• Work with business partners to ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across applications when required
• Prepare and present weekly/monthly status reports and daily project level status reports to both the US and India team members
• Build project standards and processes and implement them across the teams
• 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
• Overall, 15+ years experience in developing and maintaining Software & Products
• Hands on experience in developing mainframe (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL) and distributed applications (Java, Kafka, Elastic, AWS, Python)
• Knowledge of US Healthcare domain, in general and Provider domain, in particular is desirable
• Solid knowledge of Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

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.