Lead and support a scrum team by delivering new code, triaging defects, ensuring application availability and stability, conducting integration/regression/performance testing, deploying to test and production, liaising between business and technical teams, and providing rotational weekend production support. Drive API and microservices architecture, CI/CD/DevOps practices, and adoption of AI in daily workflows.
Requisition Number: 2360766
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:
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:
- Working on new code delivery and triaging tickets, working with consuming applications and data provider for software defects that scrum team is not able to resolve
- Be able to be flexible and work in a dynamic environment with daily code deployments and changes in priorities from Product Team
- Working as part of scrum team to understand, analyze, and implement requirements into functional artifacts
- Provide production and non-production support for incident tickets
- Support application availability, reliability, and stability
- Conduct System Integreation, Regression and performance testing, deploy code to test and production environments, and support and triage of testing for releases
- Act as the liaison between Business, Developers and Scrum teams on requirements/scope/Change discussions to determine IT scope
- Identify corresponding scope for all Technical Teams for the change considering opportunities for consolidation, enhancement, and retirement of related software/features
- Analyze and work to resolve the Defects reported by business by engaging appropriate teams
- Adherence to Agile/Rally methodology, ServiceNow Process and Maintenance of related technical team documents
- Provide weekend production support for high impact issues on a rotation basis with other team members
- Adopt AI in day to day activities
- 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:
- BS / BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD Pipeline using Git Actions
- 2+ years of experience with PowerShell
- 2+ years of experience with Java
- Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement
- Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
- Experience with REST/ JSON SOAP APIs, Java 8 or higher, Spring Boot, CLT, Git, Microservices, Docker
- Experience in any public Cloud, Machine Learning/Artificial
- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro -services architecture
- Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization
- Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud Certified
- AI/ML Certified
- Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
- Experience with Graph QL, Java 11, Springboot
- Experience on Databases, SQL programming, No SQL DBs (e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
- Experience on building Streaming Solutions using Kafka
- Experience with Automation Frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI, Spock
- Experience in Kotlin, nodeJS, Avro schema, golang, prometheous, grafana, Kubernetes, ELK stack
- Experience on implementing Automation (Unit/Functional/Regression) and Performance tuning techniques using Cucumber/Neoload
- Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Expertise in developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
- Expertise in a Contained based platform, e.g Openshift, Kubernetes, Rancher
- Good understanding of Microservices architecture
- Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment
- Demonstrate being an avid supporter of the Open Source software community
- Demonstrated excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
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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