Leads Java engineering teams delivering enterprise applications. Provides hands-on technical leadership across architecture, microservices, AWS cloud, API design, CI/CD, testing, performance, and operational excellence. Owns end-to-end delivery, mentors engineers, supports hiring and performance management, manages technical risks, and partners with product and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with organizational goals.
Requisition Number: 2382767
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:
Preferred Qualification:
Leadership & Delivery 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.
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:
- Lead and manage one or more Java engineering teams delivering large scale, enterprise grade applications
- Act as a hands on technical leader, contributing to architecture, design reviews, and complex problem solving
- Own end to end delivery including planning, execution, quality, and operational excellence
- Design and evolve microservices based, cloud native architectures on AWS
- Partner with Product, Architecture, DevOps, and Business stakeholders to align technology solutions with business goals
- Drive engineering best practices including secure coding, performance optimisation, test automation, and CI/CD
- Mentor and develop senior engineers and technical leads, building a strong leadership pipeline
- Ensure high standards for code quality, scalability, reliability, and cloud cost optimisation
- Support hiring, team scaling, and performance management of engineering talent
- Act as a point of escalation for technical and delivery risks, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- 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 in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline
- 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience with strong expertise in Java technology stack
- Technical Skills
- Solid experience with AWS Cloud,
- Solid hands on experience with Java (8+) and modern enterprise frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot
- Experience building
- o Backend: RESTful APIs, Microservices, Hibernate/JPA
- Experience with Microservices architecture, event driven systems, and API design
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Working knowledge of databases (SQL & NoSQL) and performance tuning
Preferred Qualification:
- Master's degree
Leadership & Delivery Skills
- Experience leading and mentoring mid to large engineering teams
- Solid experience with Agile/Scrum delivery models
- Ability to balance hands on technical work with people and delivery leadership
- Excellent stakeholder communication and decision making 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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