Senior Software Engineering Lead - FSE

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.

Lead the architecture, design, and development of modern cloud-native applications and data platforms leveraging Azure, Java, Spring Boot, React JS, Snowflake, and DBT. This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, solution design, and governance responsibilities to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant healthcare technology solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end solution delivery, including High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), architecture reviews, and technical roadmaps
• Design and develop scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React JS, and Azure cloud services
• Build and integrate modern data solutions leveraging Snowflake, DBT, and semantic layer architectures
• Remain highly hands-on, contributing to coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production support
• Lead and mentor engineering teams, driving engineering excellence, development standards, and best practices
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions
• Drive application security, vulnerability remediation, dependency management, and platform risk mitigation efforts
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Audit, and Risk teams to ensure adherence to enterprise policies, regulatory requirements, and healthcare industry standards
• Establish CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and operational excellence practices across the platform
• 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:

• 10+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering and application development
• Must have fulltime graduation degree
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services and cloud-native application architectures
• Experience delivering data-driven solutions using Snowflake, DBT, and semantic data models
• Experience leading technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and development teams
• Solid expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and React JS
• Solid understanding of microservices, distributed systems, API integrations, and modern engineering patterns
• Solid knowledge of secure software development, vulnerability management, and compliance requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to AI/ML-powered applications and modern data platforms
• Healthcare domain expertise, including experience with regulated data environments and compliance requirements

Ideal Candidate:

• A solid technical leader who can balance architecture, hands-on development, team leadership, platform security, and compliance while delivering scalable healthcare applications and data solutions on modern cloud platforms.

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.