Software Engineering Lead – Java, Python, ETL

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:

• Analyze & develop business requirements, work with business sponsor and project team members to deliver on the project’s stated objectives
• Analyze and interpret data to develop innovative solutions to support business and integration partners in accordance with ERIM and Legal data retention guidelines
• Design, develop, review, and deploy data integration solutions to support UHG and Optum domains for large complex legacy claims adjudication platforms which have been targeted for archival and decommission
• Plan and test software enhancements / updates, troubleshoot and help remediate defects
• Design and implement performance and operational enhancements
• Design reusable components, frameworks, and libraries using patterns that encourage innovation to help enable and accelerate team velocity
• Document application design for existing components and future enhancements to ensure that software meets business needs
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvements
• Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring to junior software engineers
• Troubleshoot production issues and support overall DevOps practices or model
• 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:

• 7+ years of experience in Software Development or Engineering
• 7+ years pf experience in data transformation and integration supporting large platform implementations
• 7+ years of experience working in the entire product life cycle from ideation to post-production with focus on driving out business requirements and translating them into technical design to support delivery
• Hands-on experience with ETL, Python, Spark, Scala, Java, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL DB technologies (MySQL, MS SQL, Hadoop, MongoDB, etc.)
• Working experience with Cloud platforms. (AWS, Azure & GCP)
• Proven solid analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Information Technology or related field
• Healthcare and/or large claim processing and adjudication experience
• Experience presenting technical capabilities to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership
• Experience in writing a platform level code in either Java or Python
• Basic knowledge on Angular or ReactJS, Rest API
• Knowledge of Enterprise Java Frameworks such as JSF, Spring MVC
• Exposure to Apache Drill 

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.