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Optum-UHC Technology is out to change the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. Our team is focused on driving change, modernization, and ensuring reliable and stable systems so that we can help to transform health care - making it easier, more affordable, and more effective for those we serve. We are passionate about technology and the role it plays to create distinctive experiences to our constituents. While we are always focused on how technology can help us deliver faster and with improved quality, we are far more enthusiastic about the ways technology can reinvent how we deliver on our mission in partnership with our lines of business and Optum Technology.
The health solutions marketplace is hungry for new ideas, innovative products and software that drives elevated performance for the business and the customer. The UnitedHealth Group family of businesses is feeding incredible solutions to that marketplace every day by bringing out the best in our software engineering teams. We serve customers across the health system. Not only do we have more of them every day, we also have more technology, greater data resources and far broader expertise than any competitor anywhere. If you're in, you'll be challenged like never before. It's time to join this history making.- Meaningful work in a healthcare technology company that is ranked #5 on the Fortune 500 list
- An environment that is collaborative, diverse, friendly, and fun
- Cross functional teams that solve problems, while leveraging cutting edge technology
- Flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S.
- Demonstrates advance level of understanding and application of general systems concepts and their integration with business problem resolution
- Ensure alignment of solutions with business and IT goals/objectives
- Identify enhancements to improve supportability, operability or performance of applications within the application group. Develop supporting business case for suggested enhancements
- Work with business partners / product owners to understand desired system functionality
- Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
- Participate in design activities, monitor and ensure the completion of tasks and projects
- Exercise independent judgment and discretion to prioritize, plan and manage the activities of the team
- Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
- Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required
- Provide guidance to team members to improve the team productivity
- Manage multiple projects at a time
- Set attainable goals for the team members and guide them thru success
- Deliver all project deliverables on scope, on time and on budget
- Good problem-solving skills
- 4+ years of experience within a Java environment
- 2+ years of Web development experience
- 1+ years of production experience with cloud technologies
- Experience delivering software using an Agile methodology
- In-depth knowledge of systems development life cycle and/or operational maintenance environment
- Bachelor's degree
- Business rules engine experience
- Experience working in the healthcare industry
- Experience prototyping and performance tuning applications deployed across multiple operating systems, languages and computing platforms
- Experience with the following:
- Streaming technology i.e. Kafka
- Cloud - GCP, AWS
- Database - NoSQL,
- Microservices architecture
- Web Development - React, Angular
- Understanding of distributed architecture design principles
- Local to Phoenix, AZ