Senior Software Engineer I

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, implement and maintain highly scalable microservices within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure
• Establish, refine and integrate CI/ CD, feature testing automation, performance testing as needed
• Identify production and non-production application issues
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications, public cloud infrastructure cost, best cloud practices, scalability, high availability
• Provide technical leadership, design and code review, serve as a mentor to less experienced Developers
• 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:

• Graduate or Post Graduate in Computer Science /Engineering/Science/Mathematics or related field with 7+ years of experience .Net Core, Angular, REST and Azure
• Cloud Certification, preferably Azure
• 7+ years of development experience using C# Programming
• Ability to envision the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and be able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to materialize it
• Ability to 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
• Ability to create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Ability to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates
• Ability to identify and integrate well over all integration points in context of a project as well as other applications in the environment
• Ability to deliver professional level technical work in support of the development of company products, tools, platforms and services, typically for an external customer or end user
• Ability to operate within established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines Knowledgeable with principles and techniques to solve technical problems
• Ability to work closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps
• Ability to design and implement web services with security
• Ability to design and implement database schema
• Good understanding of Infrastructure as code

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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