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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, Development, initial prototypes, POC of upcoming sprints
- Collaborate with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions
- Ensure team follows best practices and improve application performance
- Influence peers without authority by inspiring them to use cutting edge tools and build best of the breed solutions
Participate actively in Agile / SCRUM meetings - Help the Scrum execution team to make a smooth progress on delivering new functionality and at the end the each Sprint
- Support the development team by validating that the design and implementation of their app is in line with requirements, solution design, guidelines and direction/roadmap
- Apply repeatable design patterns, best practices and development frameworks and techniques
- Plan and strategize with other key leaders including resource, technology and product-services planning
- Focus on execution of product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
- Drive some of the software engineering phases including requirements analysis, architecture & application design
- Design and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
- Triage production support issues post-deployment and drive solutions as required
- Ensure team is building reusable components, frameworks and libraries which can be leveraged across department
- Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
- Collaborate with quality teams to drive continuous improvement
- Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems
- Works with less structured, more complex issues
- Analyzes and investigates
- Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
- 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
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:
- Bachelor's degree (or higher)
- 3+ years of experience in the software engineering profession across entire SDLC
- 3+ years of experience in Java, Sprint Boot, React JS, Redux, Node JS, Javascript, Html and Microservices
- 3+ years of experience consuming REST Applications
- 3+ years of experience delivering software using an Agile / Scrum methodology
- 3+ years of experience with Google Web Optimization guidelines, Web Performance best practices and search engine optimization
- 3 + years of experience and good understanding of web application networking and communication flows
- 3+ years of experience in Demonstrated success designing and building high-quality, scalable commercial software applications
- 3+ years of experience in Front End – ReactJS, Typesccript, Nodejs, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, J Query
- 3+ years of experience in Middleware – Webservices – Java, Microservices, Springboot, Red Hat JBoss EAP, Tomcat
- 3+ years of experience in Back End – SQLServer/Oracle/MySQL
- 3+ years of Web Security experience
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
