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.

This position is for a Principal Software Engineer for products under Consumer Engineering group. This role will be responsible for managing end-to-end solutioning, design and delivery for multiple scrum teams. The role is expected to work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and Architects to achieve product objectives including cloud migration.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be able to envision the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and be able to define technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
  Understand various disparate views of the system
• Design and develop the framework of the system and be able to explain choices made. Write and review design document explaining overall architecture, framework, and high-level design of the application
• Create, understand, and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Be able to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates
• Review architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design
• Manage and be accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Adherence to the defined SSMO delivery process/guidelines like Problem Management, Incident Management, Change Management, SLA Compliance, productivity and other application goals, etc.
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production Support readiness reviews for new releases
• Participate in stakeholder discussions (business customers, IT partners) along with Service Managers/Service Directors for understanding business needs.
• Ensure timely and quality delivery as per release plan
• Encourage domain and technical knowledge and aim to build an SME(s) in specific functional and technical component
• Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements
• Participate in meetings/walkthrough session/group meetings to understand business problem/objective of project
• Act as a gatekeeper for production and analyze each code and infrastructure changes going in to ensure the quality
• Work with business partners to ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across applications when required
• Coordinate with development team and ensure a smooth and error free release. Ensuring defect free releases to enhance existing functionality
• Prepare and present weekly/monthly status reports and daily project level status reports to both the US and India team members
• Act as a leader for others team members
• Build a relationship with project stakeholders/business partners
• Ensure compliance with organization and project defined standards and processes
• Support existing application on Production
• Achieve harmonious working relationships with business partners and within team
• Ensure compliance with organization and project defined standards and processes
• Ensure availability over weekends / holidays as may be needed due to project requirements
• 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 from recognized University
• 12+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Java / J2EE and related technologies like Spring Security, Spring Boot, Spring MVC and RESTful web / micro services, Hibernate, Spring Data JPA
• 5+ years of experience in Solutioning, Architecture/Designs and Hands on experience of developing high performing scalable Platform architecture for Java/J2EE
• 5+ years of working experience in React JS/Redux, AWS/Azure, Jenkins CI/CD pipeline (test, build, deployment and monitoring automation)
• 5+ years of experience working as a lead owning the delivery of products.
• 4+ years of experience in using automated deployment and release management tools such as Chef / Ansible / Jenkins
• 4+ years of experience of managing development delivery in agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban
• 4+ years of working experience in Web Services / API, REST Architecture, etc.
• 4+ years of working knowledge of build tools such as Maven / Gradle
• 3+ years of experience providing technical solutions for new capabilities added to products
• Experience in KCC, HCC, Portals, Kubernetes, Health Care Cloud
• Good Experience in End-to-end testing/integration testing/Test data co-ordination
• Proven well-versed with Engineering Practices and Agile environment
• Proven ability to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills
• Proven excellent in design thinking and approach to solve business problem by applying suitable technologies (cost efficient, high performance, resilient and scalable)
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and leverage them to execute on the use cases given to solve business problems
• Worked in an Agile team and good understanding of Scrum / Kanban
• Proven good oral and written communication Skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in healthcare domain
• Experience with high volume transaction sites
• Experience working with applications deployed in private or public cloud
• Experience in customer facing products
• Experience in Mobile Development

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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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