Lead software engineering activities, provide technical direction, mentor team members, and drive innovation and quality in software solutions.
Requisition Number: 2352713
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.
The Senior is a senior technical role responsible for leading end-to-end software engineering activities while providing solid technical direction and hands-on contribution. This role applies engineering principles to the design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality software solutions.
The Tech Lead plays a critical role in technical decision-making, mentoring engineers, ensuring quality across deliverables, and driving innovation, efficiency, and future-ready technology solutions within the organization.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
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.
The Senior is a senior technical role responsible for leading end-to-end software engineering activities while providing solid technical direction and hands-on contribution. This role applies engineering principles to the design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of high-quality software solutions.
The Tech Lead plays a critical role in technical decision-making, mentoring engineers, ensuring quality across deliverables, and driving innovation, efficiency, and future-ready technology solutions within the organization.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end software engineering activities including
- Requirements analysis, system design, development, testing, deployment, and application support
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team
- Design and build scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions
- Drive adoption of microservices architecture and engineering best practices
- Remain hands-on into coding, debugging, testing, and performance tuning
- Review code and ensure adherence to design patterns, standards, and quality benchmarks
- Lead and support test automation, DevOps, and CI/CD initiatives
- Guide teams in functional, regression, and system integration testing
- Oversee application support and production issue resolution
- Collaborate effectively with global and cross-functional teams
- Identify and remove technical blockers and risks
- Build reusable components, shared frameworks, and utilities to improve efficiency
- Evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to enhance engineering capability
- Influence architectural decisions and future technology direction
- Ensure quality is built into every deliverable and process
- Mentor and support the growth of team members
- 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:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Familiarity or experience with Microservices architecture and REST APIs development (Node/ExpressJS, Java/Spring boot, etc.), React ,Gen AI, Azure Cloud, programming language (Python, Java, Go), Build & CI/CD pipeline tools like Maven, Gradle, GitHub Actions, NLP & ML techniques such as RAG, Embedding, Tokenization, Chunking, sentiment analysis, text generation, LLM models deployment. CODEX and Opensource framework & platform to build LLM applications
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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