Senior Manager Software Engineering – Java Fullstack

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.

We need a highly innovative confident Senior Manager Software Engineering who can build as well as lead a team of engineers, with modern technologies, with a wealth of experience in database, Java, virtual threads, Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres database, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas in a cloud environment. Or someone who has worked on Databricks and Kafka with Java and Springboot background. Our team develops tools to calculate the capitation for Value-based Reimbursement. To thrive in this team, you must have a comprehensive understanding of system implementation and design and be enthusiastic about leading development of new paradigms in software system architecture. The team will learn from you and utilize your knowledge and skills in standards, corporate security protocols, and data governance, and the responsibilities include, implementing and crafting sophisticated APIs, batch programs and UIs, integrating and maintaining technology into existing CI/CD pipelines, and encouraging developer adoption of metadata specifications.

It is important that you are comfortable documenting systems and developing library code to lead developers in optimizing their engineering workflow. This position will also ensure that the UI design and system designs are inventive, functional, yet simple so that it can be used by individuals with a wide range of technical backgrounds.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways. Impact of work is most often at the operational or local business unit or market level.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be able to envision the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and be able to define technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
• Understand various disparate views of the system
• Design and develop the framework of the system and be able to explain choices made. 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
• Be able to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates
• Review architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design
• Manage and be accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Adherence to 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
• Participate in stakeholder discussions (business customers, IT partners) along with Service Managers/Service Directors for understanding business needs
• Ensure timely and quality delivery as per release plan
• Encourage domain and technical knowledge and aim to build an SME(s) in specific functional and technical component
• 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 code and infrastructure changes going in to ensure the quality
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree from recognized University 
• 12+ years of overall IT experience. An individual with experience in Java (Spring framework), Javascript, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud and also experienced in managing a team of highly skilled developers
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Java / J2EE and related technologies like Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and RESTful web / micro services, Hibernate, Spring Data JPA
• Experience in Databricks/Kafka/Java/SB or Java/SB/Kafka/React
• Experience in Java Microservices
• Spring Boot JPA/Hibernate
• Experience in React JS
• Azure / GCP Cloud hands on experience
• Skills : Full Stack, AI/ML, Agile, Cloud, DevOps, Java, Kubernetes, SQL, Azure, Big Data, Kafka, Github, Snowflake, Splunk, ServiceNow, SpringBoot,
• LINUX, NodeJS, Scrum
• Basic/Advanced database SQL skills
• Team Management
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Proven good Communication and interpersonal Skills

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in healthcare domain
• Experience with high volume transaction sites
• Experience working with applications deployed in private or public cloud

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.