External Description

Description - External

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and continuously improve software.
• Mentor the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible.
• Guide and help the team adopt best engineering practices.
• Support driving modern solutions to complex problems

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Tech Lead who has the capability and will to lead end-to-end software engineering – development, test automation, devops and application support.
• Solid understanding of software engineering and processes: application security, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile, and dev-ops.
• Experience working with teams that leveraged two 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.
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Potential candidate must have:

• 6 to 8 years of Java/J2EE experience.
• 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience Python, Go.
• 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience in React and Node.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in production public cloud (AWS).
• Strong, hands-on knowledge in JUnit or equivalent framework.
• Strong, hands-on knowledge in PL/SQL and SQL Server/Oracle database.
• Hands on experience in working with standard DevOps tools:
  o  Build automation tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Travis CI or equivalent
  o  Build Tools such as Maven, ANT, Gradle or equivalent
  o  Source control tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN or equivalent
  o  Configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible.
• Hands-on in designing software solutions and architecture.
• Hands-on in using design patterns.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

Potential candidate should have:

• Hands-on knowledge in trouble shooting, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams – Solution Design, Development, Quality Engineering and DevOps.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team with a positive team spirit

Potential candidate could have:

• Work experience in Agile/Scrum Methodology.
• Knowledge of SAFe.
• Work experience in product engineering.
• Knowledge of US Healthcare domain, in general and data analytics applications/products in particular

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

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.