Software Engineering Lead – Python / GO AND Azure

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:

• Develop systems to liberate data from RDBMS platforms into a streaming architecture on-premise and in the cloud
• Work with automation and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, GitHub Action, Terrafor, Ansible or other commercial PaaS offerings
• Continually monitor industry developments in Cloud infrastructure developments, tools and products used in the cloud delivery model
• Work with Software, Platform Engineering and Operations teams on the development and delivery of operational ready platforms
• Work with log aggregation tools like Splunk and ELK
• Design automated, resilient, scalable platform solutions
• Participate in development of automated delivery work flows using cloud automation and orchestration tools, Unix shell scripting and other deployment tools
• Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements
• Involved in solving moderately complex problems and/or conduct moderately complex analysis
• Deliver the process and standards for developing new and exciting services for our customers
• Develop integrations between vendor tool APIs and automation frameworks
• Provide explanation and information to others on difficult issues
• Coach, provide feedback and guide others
• Identify/quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems
• Support, design and improve on monitoring, alerting and tooling efforts
• Maintain awareness of current technology assets, and the applicability and capability of each
• Ability and willingness to augment current expertise with new open source or targeted vendor technologies
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of Python or Go development experience
• 3+ years of cloud technology experience (GCP / Azure preferred)
• 2+ year in platform engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with Agile methodology and Agile DevOps delivery model experience
• 1+ years of experience working across fully automated stacks in a CI/CD ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go or Python development experience
• Health care industry experience
• Experience with distributed data stores at scale
• Experience in working with emerging technologies
• Experience working effectively across multiple functional areas in a matrixed environment
• Experience with Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana or any CDC tools

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.