Senior Software Engineering Lead – Python Scripting, Infrastructure Automation

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Effectively communicates with business stakeholders and technical team
• Holds self-accountable for meeting high performance standards and agreed upon commitments
• Takes responsibility for outcomes of actions and decisions
• Identifies and analyzes options and selects course of action based on best fit with desired outcomes
• Troubleshoot complex Incidents and develop skills for future technologies
• Develop POC of new products and define center of excellence for the organization
• Understands all the connected technology services and their impacts
• Assesses ideas in context of maximizing business value
• Assesses design and proposes options to ensure solution meets business needs in terms of security, scalability, reliability and feasibility
• Collaborates with relevant stakeholders to achieve business outcomes
• Recommends ways to mitigate interdependencies
• Shares learnings with others to influence change
• Evaluates symptoms & corelates data to pin-point issue
• Uses prior experience to develop solutions, adapting approach based on feedback
• Evaluates quality processes and seeks opportunities to streamline
• Considers the customer experience, business impact and solution objective when managing risks and development and design of solutions
• Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to improve overall quality
• 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 regard 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:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical role or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Python scripting
• Exposure on any cloud platform like Azure or GCP
• Experience with TDD (Test Driven Development)
• Experience in IaC using terraform

• Experience in Cloud platform

   

• Database and caching experience, SQL and NoSQL (Postgres, Elasticsearch, or MongoDB a plus)
• Developing/Fully Proficient
• Has responsibility and capability to work multi-platforms
• Ability to interpret policies and applies experience
• Ability to design and builds services to allow them to be automated
• Hands on experience on Jenkins / Apache airflow / FastApi
• Depth knowledge in AI / GenAI / Agentic AI
• Working experience on:
  • Source Control
  • Continuous Integration
  • Good programing and coding skills
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Deployment Automation & Orchestration
  • Container Concepts
  • Container Orchestration
  • Public/Private cloud expertise; and hands on exposure on application migration to cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience in implementing AI / GenAI / Agentic AI
• Experience in the Healthcare industry
• Familiar with authorization frameworks like oAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect
• Moderate familiarity with many technologies and shares this with others
• Ability to drive employee engagement and achieve management effectiveness
• Ability to attract and hire top talent
• Ability to understand and can utilize AI/ML techniques to create advanced monitoring and remediation solutions
• Ability to identify opportunities to use AI/ML technologies

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.