Lead and manage full-stack engineering teams, ensuring performance accountability and delivering innovative improvements in application portfolio and cloud systems. Prioritize project timelines, troubleshoot technical issues, and support Agile team collaboration, while promoting best practices in development and CI/CD tools, especially in the healthcare domain.
Requisition Number: 2355004
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
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.
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of individual contributors
- Bring innovative ideas to help continuously improve the application portfolio including the design, build, deploy, test and runtime within cloud ecosystems
- Contribute to Design, Development, Unit Testing, System Testing and Test Automation activities
- Participate in troubleshooting and debugging critical problems and resolving complex technical issues that may arise in a complex platform
- Be able to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Work with geographically distributed Agile teams
- Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
- Impact of work is most often at the operational or local business unit or market level
- Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior level professional staff
- Impact of work is most often at the operational or local business unit or market level
- 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:
- 10+ years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer with Solid proficiency in Java, SpringBoot or other backend programming languages
- 5+ years of experience with Node JS, Angular/React
- 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure
- Good hands-on experience on MVC, SOA based applications, applications with high configurability
- Good experience leading setup of DevOps tools for CI/CD and CT setups
- Solid experience on Full stack Application development
- Experience with a variety of modern open-source technologies (Kafka, Kubernetes)
- Broad technology experience, including complex systems integration
- Solid technical development experience on effectively writing code, code reviews, best practices on configuration management and code refactoring
- Knowledge of CICD, Security & Vulnerabilities: Maven, Jenkins & Service Now API integration for auto deployments, Stargate, Fortify, Sonar and Twistlock
- Health care domain knowledge
- Good understanding of SCRUM and best practices
- Proven good analytical and self-learning skills and desire to learn new technologies
- Proven good in oral & written communication skills
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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Chennai, India, India
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