Optum

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:

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of cloud applications
• Act as service-level owner of high-revenue, business-critical production service
• Lead the response to any incidents or outages, ensuring quick resolution and minimal impact on users
• Lead, mentor, and manage teams of software engineers and coach on opportunities and career growth
• Contribute to Design, Development, Unit Testing, System Testing and Test Automation activities
• Guide the team in Scaled Agile (SAFe) best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
• Collaborate with product management, QA, architecture, and key leaders to translate product roadmaps into successful delivery and customer value
• Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of leads and/or senior level professional staff
• Bring innovative ideas to help continuously improve the application portfolio including the design, build, deploy, test and runtime within cloud ecosystems
• Be able to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Work with geographically distributed Agile teams
• Drive continuous improvement in cross-functional processes through collaboration with business and technology teams
• Stay informed about the platform strategy and roadmaps to inform technical staffing needs and align deliverables with business priorities
• 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
• 12+ years of professional IT experience, with steadily increasing responsibilities
• 8+ years of developer experience with one or more common programming languages, with solid object-oriented programming skills
• 5+ years of experience leading teams and/or managing IT Project timelines and deliverables
• Hands-on leader and should be able to understand code and push good design practices
• Experience with public cloud development (possibly Azure)
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience with DevOps methodologies and enabling Automation within development teams
• Knowledge of the Software/System Development Life Cycle
• Health care domain knowledge
• Knowledge of CICD, Security & Vulnerabilities: Maven, Jenkins & Service Now API integration for auto deployments, Stargate, Fortify, Sonar, etc.
• Knowledge and understanding of diverse platforms and operating systems, including current and emerging technologies
• Knowledge and understanding of technical design patterns
• Sound understanding of industry standards around data privacy, risk management, and compliance requirements
• Proven to be highly motivated with proven success meeting commitments in a deadline-driven environment with multiple competing priorities
• Proven ability to lead change and innovation - pursue opportunities to adopt new technologies and drive adoption to enhance business outcomes - drive and manage high-quality execution across organizational lines
• Proven ability of developing relationships across technical, management, and executive levels
• Proven ability to juggle multiple projects and timelines while keeping customers, team and leadership aware of status
• Proven ability to discuss cloud architecture and principles of modern platforms
• Proven adaptable and transformable to learn latest technologies as per business needs
• Proven excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and team-building skills, business judgment, and expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff
• Proven leadership, direction, and coaching skills to encourage the adoption of good practices
• Proven ability to provide guidance to team and provide status to senior management
• Demonstrated ability to influence opinion without direct managerial control

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.