Senior Manager Software Engineering – National Remote

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.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Lead team of full stack, data engineers and collaborate with business to design and deliver cloud health care analytic solutions and enterprise scale web applications.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs, technical solution, and implementation.
• Participate and contribute to Architecture discussion with Senior Architects, Product Owners, Engineering Teams
• Come up with long term architecture roadmap for the existing products.
• Review architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design
• Responsible for data engineering lifecycle including research, proof of concepts, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Leverage deep technical knowledge to build, review, and quality control code to prepare, extract, and enrich data sources.
• Work with different business groups to understand available resources and constraints around data (sources, integrity, and definitions), processing platforms, and security.
• Translate advanced business analytics problems into technical approaches that yield actionable recommendations, in the healthcare domain.
• Maintain high quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security.
• Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it.
• Be able to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates.
• Manage competing and conflicting priorities, ambiguity and short deadlines.
• Ensure timely and quality delivery as per release plan.
• Work with business partners to ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across applications when required.
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production Support readiness reviews for new releases
• Ensure compliance with organization and project defined standards and processes.
• Constantly look at security aspects and propose architectural solution for security vulnerabilities.
• Provide technology leadership to the team. Mentor and guide them whenever required.
• Interfacing with business partners to identify opportunities for better consumer experience.
• Continuously looking for, suggesting, and implementing opportunities for process improvement
• Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and strategic innovation.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Java / J2EE and related technologies like Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and RESTful web / micro services, Hibernate, Spring Data JPA
• 5+ years of working experience in React JS/Redux, AWS/Azure, Jenkins CI/CD pipeline (test, build, deployment and monitoring automation)
• 5+ years of experience working as a lead owning the delivery of products
• 4+ years of experience in using automated deployment and release management tools such as Chef / Ansible / Jenkins
• 4+ years of experience of managing development delivery in agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban
• 4+ years of working experience in Web Services / API, REST Architecture, etc.
• 4+ years of working knowledge of build tools such as Maven / Gradle
• 3+ years of experience providing technical solutions for new capabilities added to products and ETL and BI tools like Datastage, Databricks, ADF, Tableau, PowerBI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in healthcare domain
• Experience with high volume transaction sites and customer facing products
• Good experience in End-to-end testing/integration testing/Test data co-ordination
• Worked in an Agile team and has good understanding of Scrum / Kanban
• Well-versed with Engineering Practices and Agile environment
• Proven good oral and written communication Skills
• Proven excellent in design thinking and approach to solve business problem by applying suitable technologies (cost efficient, high performance, resilient and scalable)
• Proven ability to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and leverage them to execute on the use cases given to solve business problems

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy 

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $110,200 to $188,800 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.   

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.