Senior 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.

As the Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the development and execution of the vision for enabling solutions on United AI Studio (enterprise ML platform). As a thought leader, you will establish guidance on how to use and implement platform features in compliance with enterprise standards. As a senior engineering leader, you will work with customers, other engineering teams and leaders – solving their use cases using playbooks from United AI Studio to drive the adoption of the platform across the organization.

The engineering work is primarily done using cloud-based services like Azure, AWS, and GCP, and it is therefore essential that for our engineers to be successful, they should have had experience working on cloud-based services.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Trusted partner of the technical leadership of an organization, typically at the Director level
• Key influencer in planning strategy and bring in business and industry context to technology decisions that will help United AI Studio (enterprise ML platform) as platform to enable developers across enterprise to build their own applications
• Architecture should be exemplary in terms of efficiency, stability, extensibility, and the ability to evolve over time. Simplify processes and technologies
• Software is robust in the presence of failures, scalable, and cost-effective
• Coding practices are exemplary in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation
• Decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions
• Should be flexible, adapting to meet the needs of the team, project, or product
• Solicit differing views and are willing to change your mind as you learn more
• As a “hands-on” technical leader, split your time between coding, design, and architecture based on where the greatest impact (or in response to job requirements)
• Amplify impact by leading design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features
• Probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding
• Mentor software engineers
• 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 regard 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 10+ years experience in building SOA style applications in the cloud
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a principal-level software engineer
• 6+ years of hands-on experience working on large scale Java projects with specific focus on micro services, Spring Boot, or spark Scala projects
• 3+ years of experience in working cloud environments – Azure, AWS, GCP
• Experience working in a complex, service-oriented service development
• Experience in working with engineering leaders
  Demonstrable proficiency in cloud platforms and services (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Knowledge on technology stack like Java (Spring Boot), REST APIs
• Good knowledge on cloud related infra, security and networking aspects.
• Proven track record of leading application or platform security framework for large-scale, multi-cloud platforms
• Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, high-quality systems.
• Proven Exceptional communication skills
• Proven Excellent problem-solving skills

• Proven Highly organized individual

   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using terraform or other CI/CD IaC
• Any knowledge or working experience on AI/ML projects

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.