Senior Software Engineer I

Requisition Number: 2347373
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:

• Reviews business requirements
• Demonstrates understanding of applicable business processes and how they add value to the business
• Demonstrates understanding of application architecture and how business logic integrates with it
• Evaluates and drives new project development
• Adheres to applicable enterprise development methodologies and processes
• Reviews and fully understands application/system designs
• Anticipates design scalability and ensures inclusion in application/system designs
• Performs and participates in all required design reviews
• Develops technical specifications/design documents as defined in application/system designs
• Ensures compliance with application code standards
• Ensures that technical specifications/design documents are clearly and comprehensively documented, understood and traceable to the application/system design
• Demonstrates understanding of applicable data models and enterprise data standards
• Works with database teams to evaluate and establish applicable database technical requirements
• Accounts for applicable security requirements in technical specifications/design documents
• Ensures that technical specifications/design documents optimize application/systems performance
• Ensures appropriate integration/interface with applicable partner specifications/design documents
• Develops application/system code as defined in technical specifications
• Creates unit test plans, executes unit testing and documents results to ensure that code works as designed
• Ensures that application/system code is clearly and comprehensively developed and traceable back to technical specifications
• Incorporates scaling capability into application/system code as applicable
• Ensures integration with testing groups
• Conducts all required reviews (e.g., code coverage, code reviews, test plan reviews), as applicable
• Review and troubleshoot potential coding issues
• Validates technical compliance application/system designs
• Demonstrates clear understanding of how the application may be impacted in all aspects of the testing process (e.g., regression testing)
• Analyzes/fixes defects identified in testing (e.g., root cause analysis)
• Partners with applicable groups (e.g., QA) to review and provide feedback on testing scenarios
• Identifies scenarios that may require regression testing, and communicate to appropriate testing groups (e.g., QA)
• Works with Infrastructure Services to resolve issues identified in specific testing environments
• Provides testing documentation to applicable groups (e.g., release notes, change requests, use cases)
• Works with configuration/release management to develop release plans that ensure proper applications deployment
• Ensures that the deployment process is fully documented and compliant with all operational requirements for the application/system
• Communicates and ensures full understanding of application/system changes to applicable groups, in order to facilitate ongoing application stability
• Participates in the application deployment process, as needed
  Provides ongoing expertise to operational support groups (e.g., Systems Support) in order to address identified application problems/issues, as requested
• Ensures that operational documentation is updated to include system maintenance/update changes
• Ensures that system maintenance/updates adhere to security standards
• 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 reassignment 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
• 5+ years of previous work experience as Oracle lead developer with expertise in SQL , PLSQL programming, performance tuning , DB Capacity mgmt , multi-tenant Architecture
• Proven solid analytical and communication skill
  Proficient in Cloud Technologies preferably Azure
• Proficient with other RDBMS like MySQL, SQL Server, postgres
• Should have implemented at least one AI project/POC in the recent tenure
• Exposure to Unix/Linux systems and shell scripting skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Java, Python working experience

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.