UnitedHealth Group
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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Information is the lifeblood of the healthcare industry – everything depends on it. At Optum Insight Technology & Engineering, you’ll help us work on streamlining the flow of information between payers, healthcare providers and various other stakeholders to deliver the right insights to the right places at the right times, driving better outcomes for patients, reducing friction in the health system and lowering costs. Every day our work directly impacts the world for the better, in meaningful and profound ways.
We live in a time of unprecedented technical capability and possibility. Health care is at a pivotal point in this journey where even small gains can lead to major transformation. You could be a part of that – you have tremendous skill and the potential to make a lasting impact. Optum Insight Technology is uniquely positioned to bring your skills to bear on these pressing and life-changing technical challenges. The health care industry has an immediate need for your drive, innovation, passion and technical insight. Help us help the millions of people we serve each day.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
Partner with Engineering, Business and Technical Product to make and meet project commitments in an agile framework; rapidly delivering value to our customers via technology solutions
Mentor engineers to successfully deliver software and business value
Accountable for teams’ adoption of Optum engineering culture
Continuous improvement for alerts, monitors and telemetry
Accountable for teams who design and develop resilient, reliable, scalable and self-healing solutions to meet and exceed customer requirements
Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, scalability and maintainability guidelines
Set automation standards and implement tooling to support/report adherence
Identify initiatives from application and customer telemetry that result in customer metric improvement and drive adoption on team
Actively mentor team members through code reviews, brown bags, tech talks, design reviews
Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices
Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry evaluating emerging software technologies
Set and hold team accountable to stability and resiliency metrics
Design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software
Create reusable components, patterns, tools and promote use by members of the team
Understand security threats and patterns and ensure adherence to all regulatory initiatives, HIPPA, PHI, PII, locational data restrictions, contractual, etc.
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
Undergraduate degree or 7+ years of equivalent experience in software engineering and processes: design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile and dev-ops, as well as industry patterns for application architecture and integration
7+ years of experience working with teams that leveraged three or more of the following: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, web applications, web services, application observability and/or messaging/ stream architecture
7+ years of coding experience with one or more of the follow languages Java, C#, C/C++, Go, Python or JavaScript with a willingness and ability to learn new ones * 7+ years Database design especially using MSSQL Server or any other relational database, with solid SQL language skills
2+ years of production experience with cloud and big data technologies
2+ years of agile development experience; solid understanding of DevOps mindset
2+ years of production operational support
2+ years writing unit or integration tests
Preferred Qualifications:
Instrumenting apps with Azure Monitor, Azure App Insights, AWS CloudWatch, and creating effective alarms and dashboards
Log indexing tools (e.g. ELK stack, Datadog, Splunk, Sumologic)
SRE principles (error budgets, alarming practices, etc.)
Development experience in .NET CORE, Snowflake, S3 buckets, Azure App Services, Docker, Cloud, Kubernetes, React, Message Queues
Experience with technologies such as: HTML/JavaScript, TestCafe, NodeJS, Git, JEST or SOA
Experience with Snowflake, Synapse
IT full-stack engineering experience
Healthcare domain background
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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