Lead Full Stack 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.

This role is for a Lead Full Stack Engineer who has a comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle. The primary responsibilities include guiding the team on the technical model and the overall solution, and acting as a liaison between Architecture, Product, and Technology teams. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, Partner Solution Architects, and Technical Architects to ensure reliable and accurate solutions that meet client outcomes. - Communicate new product and solution requirements to the solution development and management team. - Lead the team towards technical accomplishments, fostering collaborative efforts and achieving critical project goals. - Independently communicate with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project priorities and deadlines. - Perform analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, and documentation tasks. - Enhance existing products and create new offerings utilizing the latest technology. - Build and lead a product development team to deliver projects that meet business objectives and solve critical user problems. - Collaborate with key leaders to develop strategic projects, streamline decision-making, and manage the engineering team. - Act as a technical leader, managing code reviews, post-project analysis, and articulating project success factors. - Provide leadership for planning, recruiting, and managing a world-class technology, product development, and application engineering team. - Continuously assess and redesign processes to ensure they are repeatable, sustainable, and scalable. This role demands a proactive and innovative approach, leveraging AI and advanced technologies to drive excellence and deliver outstanding solutions.

Primary Responsibility:

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Experience: 10+ years of hands-on software development, with a solid focus on end-to-end solution development, driving scalable, high-performance systems
• Skills: Expert in modern programming languages (Java, Python, C++), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and AI/ML integration into production-grade applications
• Solution Development: Proven track record of designing and delivering innovative, enterprise-level solutions that align with business goals and technical requirements, including AI-powered features. AI/ML: Extensive experience building machine learning models, data pipelines, and deploying AI/ML-driven products, with practical knowledge of algorithms and optimization. Leadership: Solid leadership abilities, managing cross-functional teams, providing mentorship to junior engineers, and overseeing project delivery from concept to deployment
• Tools: Advanced proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), databases (SQL/NoSQL), and modern testing methodologies

Preferred Qualification: 

• Advanced AI certifications, DevOps

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, capable of collaborating across teams to solve complex technical challenges

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.

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