Senior Manager Software Engineering

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:

• Creates and implements project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for one or more medium sized projects of low to moderate complexity
• Prepares detailed statements of work and gains concurrence and approval from stakeholders regarding various project aspects and adjusts accordingly
• Participates in delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to project management policies and procedures
• Assists in the staffing of projects
• Organizes project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments, and objectives
• Participates in work as applicable
• Manages costs, schedules, and quality by overseeing project deliverables
• Ensures schedule and budget are met
• Performs ongoing review of project status
• Identifies possible project risks
• Recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate
• Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to technical requirements, business requirements and schedule of the project
• Provides input on possible changes needed based on current project status
• Manages client, company, and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance by obtaining and providing project metrics
• Recommends changes or alternate paths based upon performance and metrics
• Assigns work and provides direction regarding timeliness and completion of project objectives. Addresses performance issues within prescribed guidelines
• Provides performance input upon completion of project
• 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:

• 12+ years of total experience in the IT industry
  
• Hands-on experience in Azure 
• Hands-on experience of Generative AI
• Solid hands-on experience in REST APIs, .Net
  
• Solid hands-on experience in writing unit tests
  
• Solid hands-on experience in SQL server 
• Experience in managing large teams
  
• Experience with public cloud
  
• Experience in managing deliveries end to end
  
• Experience in designing a system end to end

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good knowledge of noSQL databases and expertise in any one of the noSQL database
  
• Hands-on experience in working with standard DevOps tools:
  
  • Build automation tools such as Jenkins, TFS
    
  • Containerization based deployments (Docker)
    
  • Source control tools such as Git, TFS or equivalent
    
  • Proven ability to perform functional, regression and system integration tests
    
• Good work experience in using test automation tools:
  
  • Hands-on with design patterns
    
  • Good knowledge and experience in application support
    
  • Proven solid analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
  • #ExeTech

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.