Leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable .NET and cloud-based microservices across Azure and AWS. Provides technical leadership through architecture, code and design reviews, mentoring, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and cloud cost analysis. Establishes CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment practices while ensuring scalability, availability, and non-functional requirements. Collaborates across teams to define solutions, estimate work, integrate systems, and evaluate emerging AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies.
Requisition Number: 2388392
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 Qualifications:
Technical 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:
- Design, implement and maintain highly scalable microservices within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Establish, refine and integrate CI/ CD, feature testing automation, performance testing as needed. Good understanding of Infrastructure as code
- Identify production and non-production application issues
- Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications, public cloud infrastructure cost, best cloud practices, scalability, and high availability
- Provide technical leadership, design and code review, serve as a mentor to junior developers
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with 6+ years of solid software engineering experience
- Proven ability to envision the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and be able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to materialize it
- Proven ability to design and develop the framework of the system and be able to explain choices made. Also write and review design documents explaining overall architecture, framework and high-level design of the application
- Proven ability to create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
- Proven ability to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates
- Proven ability to identify and integrate well over all integration points in context of a project as well as other applications in the environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Health care industry experience
- Knowledge in NLP, machine learning, deep learning
Technical Skills:
- Solid Product development experience in .Net, C#, NO-SQL databases like Cosmos DB
- Solid experience in Azure application development, infrastructure, networking, monitoring, troubleshooting and public cloud cost analysis
- AWS experience
- Experience with developing applications using Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Service Fabric, App Service, function, Cosmos DB, azure Storage, service bus queues, event hubs, application gateway etc
- Proficient in AI tools like copilot, AI automation and productivity, knowledge in LLM, and agentic AI framework
- Good to have fundamental core ML and DL knowledge, NLP
- Proficiency in Front-end application development using Angular or React
- Design and implement highly scalable Restful microservices
- Good knowledge in docker containers, orchestrator like Kubernetes
- Automating all deployment steps with Infrastructure as Code (IAC), CI/ CD pipelines using Git Action, terraform, MLOps etc
- Define guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
- Do required POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
- Quick learner and highly motivated team player and a self-starter. Should be able to learn new technology and able to deliver the work in short duration
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Solid collaborator within and across multiple teams
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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