Principal Software Engineer

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Be a part of the Employee and Individual IT Operations team whose primary aim is to run a trustworthy IT ecosystem for our customers. To run an IT ecosystem that is sufficiently secure, resilient, available, performant, and usable many important roles are needed. The team is comprised of performance testing, architecture testing, release management, database services, DevOps, fiscal responsibilities, tech operations management, and project management. We’re looking for an energetic and curious individual to join our team to take on this role.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Drives creation of strategic themes (EPICS) to define and bound long running initiatives
• Contributes to the shared ownership of a product to ensure the right problems are being solved the right way to meet customer needs
• Solves difficult or complex business and technical problems
• Drives best practices and agreed upon design patterns into the solution wherever possible
• Code achieves scalability and performance goals to meet or exceed the business need
• May begin to influence org and org behaviors through presenting and reporting
• Accountable to confirm IT capacity to ensure on time project success
• Work closely with USP leadership to drive planning for key business objectives
• 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:

• 8+ years experience in software development cycle and project management
• Experience with Agile (Rally): Utilizing Agile (Rally) software to track status of defects, user stories, & scrum team deliverables
• Experience with Agile Agile Methodology: Using Agile Methodologies in an everyday environment to collaborate with stakeholders and provide continuous improvement at every phase of a project’s development cycle.  Teams will be required to cycle through a process of planning, executing, and reflecting on each deliverable
• Experience with Agile PowerBI: Utilizing PowerBI for reporting and metric management
• Expert level Microsoft Suite
• Proven solid written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Aspire: Utilize Aspire for team capacity tracking
• Experience with Coding Languages: JAVA, Python

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.