Software Engineering Lead

Responsibilities include working on new code delivery and triaging tickets, working with consuming applications and data provider for software defects that scrum team is not able to resolve
Ability to be flexible and work in a dynamic environment with daily code deployments and changes in priorities from Product Team
Working as part of scrum team to understand, analyze, and implement requirements into functional artifacts
Provide production and non-production support for incident tickets
Support application availability, reliability, and stability
Conduct performance testing, deploy code to test and production environments, and support and triage of testing for releases
Act as the liaison between Business, Developers and Scrum teams on requirements/scope/Change discussions to determine IT scope
Identify corresponding scope for all Technical Teams for the change considering opportunities for consolidation, enhancement, and retirement of related software/features
Create a Solution Document, Conduct Review Meetings with all stake holders for the Solution developed and for Hands off to Development Teams or vendor
Work closely with all SCRUM Teams ensure solution/Scope is understood completely and implemented successfully following UHG process/policies
Analyze and work to resolve the Defects reported by business by engaging appropriate teams
Adherence to Agile/Rally methodology, ServiceNow Process and Maintenance of related technical team documents
Ability to work with infrastructure, network, database, and other IT support teams to triage issues impacting the application
Provide weekend production support for high impact issues on a rotation basis with other team members
– Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
Required Qualifications:
BS / BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
* 2+ years of experience with CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins
* 2+ years of experience with PowerShell
* 2+ years of experience with Java
* Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
* Experience with REST/ JSON SOAP APIs, Java 8 or higher, Spring Boot, CLT, Git, Jenkins, Microservices, Docker
* Experience in any public Cloud, Machine Learning/Artificial
* Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro -services architecture
* Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization
* Strong experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement
* Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams

Preferred

Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
* Good understanding of Microservices architecture
* Expertise in developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
* Experience with Graph QL, Java 11, Springboot
* Cloud Certified
* AI/ML Certified
* Experience on Databases, SQL programming, No SQL DBs (e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
* Experience on building Streaming Solutions using Kafka
* Expertise in a Contained based platform, e.g Openshift, Kubernetes, Rancher
* Experience with Automation Frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI, Spock
* Experience in Kotlin, nodeJS, Avro schema, golang, prometheous, grafana, Kubernetes, ELK stack
* Experience on implementing Automation (Unit/Functional/Regression) and Performance tuning techniques using Cucumber/Neoload
* Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment
* Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks
* Experience in the healthcare industry
* Demonstrate being an avid supporter of the Open Source software community
* Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
* Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.