Software Engineering Lead

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.  

The primary responsibility of Software Engineer is to develop software solutions in accordance with assigned projects and sprint goal. Software Engineer also works closely with the Technical Manager and Project Manager/Scrum Master towards backlog and user story refinement. Software Engineer shall have deep understanding of complete software development life cycle and shall possess demonstrable ability to work independently.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Software Development - Complete programming and system analysis tasks as assigned by Technical Manager
• Design and Estimate - Based on requirement definitions, recommend solutions with pros and cons. Create design documents with estimates of time to complete
• Work with Technical Manager to review requirements and design documents to ensure that project deliverables are met
• Project Delivery - Identify and communicate issues or risks with project deliverables
• Recommend possible technical solutions for issues and/or problems encountered when work on a project
• Application Support - On an as needed basis, provide user support for business applications. Effectively communicate with users to answer questions and resolve urgent requests
  Work with lesser experienced staff to help them improve their development skills and craft

• Bring "continuous improvement" and learning mindset to the team and encourage learning and professional growth in others

• 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:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 3 + years IT experience in a software development environment
• Experience in project management
• Experience in system design and building secure distributed applications
• Proven analysis, design, and programming experience
• Solid technical knowledge in Microsoft .NET and related technologies
• Solid ability to understand database structures and be able to manipulate, extract, and update data
• Skills
  • Software Engineer must possess excellent written and oral communication skills
• Technology Skills
  • Experience in web services, Web Api, RESTful services, microservices and API security best practices
  • Experience developing windows services
  • Experience creating stored procedure, database views, triggers, indexes
  • Clear and demonstrable understanding of Object Oriented Programming and distributed system architecture
  • .NET, C#, ASP.NET.
  • JavaScript, TypeScript
  • CSS3, HTML5, AngularJS, Angular, and other modern web development frameworks
  • Understand the concepts and best practices of DevOps and modern CI/CD
• Additional Experience
  • Ability to follow and adhere to UnitedHealthcare StudentResources programming standards
  • Ability to quickly analyze requirements and recommend multiple solutions with pros and cons
  • Ability to see the big picture and the impact of changes to all parts of the system. Ability to quickly code and test the changes
  • As a technical resource, ability to mentor junior programmers on how to improve their technical skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technology Skills
  • .NET Framework 3.5 - 4.8, .NET Core, and .NET 8/10
  • Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus - NServiceBus, MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • SOLID principles, Enterprise Design Patterns, Event Driven Architecture
  • NUnit, Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • NHibernate, Dapper, Entity Framework or equivalent ORM experience
  • IIS (or equivalent)
  • SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SRSS)
  • Agile development experience using SCRUM 
  • PowerShell

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.