Senior Software Engineer II

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:

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Utilize AI tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and efficiency across the team
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide operational support and engineering for large, distributed software applications
• Estimate: Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Engineering: Implement and adhere to best engineering practices like design, unit testing, functional testing automation, continues integration and delivery
• Stakeholder management: Excellent communication skills, clarity of thought and ability to take decisions bases on available information
• 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 or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of overall IT experience
• Worked in an Agile team and good understanding of Scrum
• Experience in financial technology domain
• Experience with high volume transaction sites
• Experience working with applications deployed in private or public cloud
• Experience in customer facing products
• Proficient in Net(Version 8), navigate C#, SQL, Azure, Docker, Terraform .Github action CI/CD, Kubernetes, Testing Automation
• Proven good oral and written communication Skills
• Proven ability to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and leverage them to execute on the use cases given to solve business problems

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.