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:

• Lead a team to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and continuously improve software
  
• Partner with business leadership to manage user stories and project commitments in an agile framework to rapidly deliver value to our customers
  
• Mentor the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible
  
• Own the applications’ technology stack and drive modern solutions to complex problems
• 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

The complexity of this role can be challenging. We deal with huge amounts of data across our entire enterprise. Everything you work on will have implications that impact others. We’ll provide the most up-to-date technology, but you’ll need to provide creativity, critical thinking and clarity on an everyday basis.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
  
• 15+ years of Java/J2EE experience, 5+ years of managing and leading teams
  
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in production cloud (public or private)
  
• Hands-on experience with delivering engineering solutions in cloud
  
• Hands-on experience in working with standard DevOps tools:
  
  • Build automation tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Travis CI or equivalent
    
  • Build Tools such as Maven, ANT, Gradle or equivalent
    
  • Source control tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN or equivalent
    
• Hands-on in designing software solutions and architecture
  
• Hands-on in using design patterns
  
• Experience working with teams that leveraged two or more of the following: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, web applications, web services, application observability and/or messaging / stream architecture
  
• IT leadership experience 
• Solid hands-on knowledge in Microservices
  
• Solid hands-on knowledge of AngularJS/Angular
  
• Solid hands-on knowledge in JUnit or equivalent framework
  
• Solid hands-on knowledge in PL/SQL and Oracle database
  
• Good knowledge of Linux and Linux based tools
  
• Solid understanding of software engineering and processes: design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile, and dev-ops
  
• Proven ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven solid analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

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.