Principal Software Engineer

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

 

Provide technical leadership in architecture, design and in modernization of legacy application/services to new technologies in the Public Cloud (AWS/Azure), Java, Java Spring, Rest API, Angular/React Js

Lead the technology transformation. Be innovative in solution design and development to meet the needs of the business.

Understands security threats and patterns comprehensively and ensures adherence to all regulatory initiatives. HIPPA, PHI, PII, locational data restrictions, contractual etc.

Contribute towards inner source to save significant $ savings and educate/encourage other teams across portfolios to use the inner source code in their products.

Create a common framework and repository for the development of Modern APIs available to the Optum Product Engineering Team

Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices

Create next generation applications with good scalable and distributed architecture

Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry evaluating emerging software technologies

Work collaboratively with all business areas to assess unmet/new business needs and solutions

Mentor and coach the engineers on the team and establish best practices

Create a startup mentality to accelerate the introduction of new capabilities and transform teams

Display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

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

 

Engineering graduate in Computer Science or equivalent stream

12+ years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms

3+ years of solid experience designing and building Enterprise Application solutions on any one of public cloud offerings

3+ years of experience developing solutions hosted within public cloud providers such as Azure or AWS or private cloud/container based systems using Kubernetes/OpenShift

Experience with application services on Azure

Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.

Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement

Experience building data pipelines on Azure with skills Databricks spark, Azure Data factory, Kafka and Kafka Streams, App services, Az Functions

Experience building distributed solutions on public cloud (Azure)

Experience developing Java RESTful Services using SpringBoot

Java/Springboot development experience

Subject matter expert on Cloud technologies preferably Azure

Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams

Avid supporter of the Open Source software community

Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

 Preferred Qualifications

 

Experience with Devops

Experience of developing cloud based API gateways would be highly desirable

Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks

Experience in the healthcare industry

Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment

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.