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:

• Leading a team building and supporting with a focus on quality, performance, scalability, and resilience
• Collaborate with the team on application architecture design and decision-making
• Constantly look at Performance & Security aspects and propose architectural solution for security vulnerabilities
• Continuously evaluating team workload and capacity and providing timely information concerning throughput and resource needs
• Leading and participating in planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation activities
• Directing day-to-day development activities for a team of data professionals
• Developing and cultivating stakeholder relationships to understand business needs and drive prioritization
• Acting as technical lead on projects
• 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.E./B Tech/MCA/M Tech / Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related discipline (Minimum 16 years of education, correspondence courses are not relevant)
• Overall 8+ years of experience with APIs / micro-services development
• Full Stack Development: Overall 8 + years of experience with Full Stack Development (Java, NodeJS, React)
• Production Software: 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software in a scaled distributed environment, preferably in public cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
• 7+ years of experience with relational databases, Mongo DB, Databricks
• 7 + years of experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience with event steaming platforms such as Kafka
• Engineering Management: 5+ years of experience managing software engineers, agile practitioners, performing software engineering, using Git, automated testing frameworks, and relational databases. Experience handling projects using the following tech stacks: Full stack and UX
• Engineers, Native Coding on mobile platforms, React/React Native experience
• Agile Frameworks: 5+ years of experience handling projects using different Agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc.
• Experience with Cloud platform (AWS, Azure), GitHub actions
• AI Integration: Knowledge and experience in integrating AI technologies into software engineering processes and products. Ability to leverage AI for improving development workflows, enhancing product features, and optimizing team performance
• Communication: Proven excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical colleagues.
• Commitment: Commitment to quality, performance, and efficiency

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare domain background
• Deep understanding of industry patterns for application architecture and integration
• Familiar with Observability tools like Datadog, Grafana, or Splunk in creating system alarms and dashboards for system and application monitoring
• Familiarity with ServiceNow in managing Production incidents and OnCall support

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.