Manager Software Engineering – .Net and .Net Core Stack

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:

• Focus on leads and individual contributors who are highly technical with respect to C#, .Net, Cloud Architecture, Azure Services, containerization strategy micro services, REST, .Net Core and Web APIs
• Collaborate with stakeholders, business, Partner Solution Architects, and Technical Architects to ensure that the Solution is accurate to deliver outcomes to the client and reliable from a technology perspective
• Understand and communicate new product and solution requirements back to the solution development and management team
• Lead others toward technical accomplishment, collaborative project team efforts and achievement of important project goals
• Independent communication with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project related items such as priorities and completion deadlines
• Analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery
• Deliver leading healthcare products
• Enhance existing products as well as create new offerings utilizing the latest technology
• Build and lead a product development team to deliver projects that meet business objectives and solve critical user problems
• Collaborate closely with key leaders to develop strategic projects, plans and processes, streamline decision-making, and develop and manage an engineering team
• Leverage technical expertise and industry trends to influence development processes and product quality
• Act as a technical leader in internal teams including managing code reviews, post project analysis and clearly articulating throughout the duration of projects what is important to the project’s success and focuses on the critical few and priorities to improve
• Provide leadership for planning, recruiting and managing part of a world class technology, product development and application engineering team delivering a world class enterprise solutions portfolio and offering enabling services
• Effectively implement SDLC, modifying it as necessary, utilizing best practices across the company and/or industry
• Develop and apply highly effective team operating mechanisms to achieve the business objectives
• Continuously assess, and if necessary, redesign processes to ensure that they are repeatable, sustainable and scalable
• Drive results through proactively collaborating across organizational boundaries, and ensures end- to-end execution that most effectively delivers for the right stakeholders
• 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:

• B.Tech/MCA/Msc/MTech (Minimum 10 years of formal education, correspondence courses are not relevant)
• 10+ years of experience in developing software systems
• 3+ years of experience in managing software development teams
• Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and frameworks such as Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Designing, Developing and Managing solution in Azure platform. Hands on development experience using App Service, Azure Function, Azure Storage, service bus queues, Event hubs, Event Grid, Application gateway, Azure SQL etc.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing DevOps pipeline using Jenkins, IaC, Azure DevOps, Terraform etc.
• Expertise level of exposure to .Net and .Net Core stack
• Deep understanding of ASP.NET MVC 4.x/5.x, C#, SQL Server, Web API, WCF, Git, Design Patterns, REST, Unit Test Frameworks
• Solid understanding of Functional and Performance Automation and related technologies, e.g. Selenium, NeoLoad etc.
• Proven ability to drive strategic technology/engine reuse, technology and architecture health, and development process improvement
• Proven ability to evaluate tools/technologies and demonstrate through POC if required

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.