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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

Join the Claims Highway team as a Senior Software Engineer II! Our team of Engineers challenges convention to drive value to the business by delivering innovative solutions to some of healthcare's most complex problems. We utilize strategic technologies to stream data to our users, enrich data in our core systems, enable public cloud migrations/hosting, and countless other things as we move toward further democratizing huge volumes of claims data within our domain. We are persistent in our drive towards digital transformation, with a product and package-focus, which enables us to build systems that are robust, self-healing, scalable, and highly configurable. Working closely within a diverse team, our culture leverages the knowledge of each member to engineer the best systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products and/or approaches to help solve complex problems with broad impact on the business

• Performing all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, and code development & testing

• Designing and implementing product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders

• Design, develop and test reusable frameworks, libraries and Java components

• Be innovative in solution design and development to meet the needs of the business

• Address the performance issues and design the solutions to meet low latency needs

• Reviewing code and providing feedback relative to best practices, improving performance etc.

• Troubleshooting production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required

• Demonstrate substantial depth of knowledge and experience in Java development

• Drive the team and collaborate to meet project timelines

• Test software development methodology in an agile environment

• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms

• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement

• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices

• Collaborating with business partner in creating user stories

• Develop cloud-based solutions and applications

• Design, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure

• Work with development teams to implement cloud-based solutions

• Create and maintain documentation for cloud solutions and infrastructure

• Monitor and troubleshoot issues with cloud infrastructure

• Ensure security and compliance of cloud infrastructure

• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and trends in cloud computing

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• Relevant bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

• 3+ years of experience in cloud computing

• 4+ years of experience working within the Software Development Life Cycle in a distributed environment

• 4+ years of demonstrated proficiency in at least two of the following:

• Ability to solve complex problems and/or conducts complex analysis

• Cloud - Azure, Google, AWS

• Application Build and Deployment using Jenkins, Gradle / MAVEN

• Microservices - RESTful API, GraphQL

• Database - DB2, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres

• Linux/Unix

• 2+ years of experience Java/J2EE Development/Spring Framework/Spring Boot/Spring Batch

• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum Methodology

• Health care industry experience, claims knowledge

• Data Formats - XML, JSON, X12

• Streaming - Kafka

• CI/CD process and tools - GitHub, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, JUnit, Terraform

• Solid familiarity with the basics of cloud architecture

• Knowledge of cloud computing systems like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

• Solid understanding with automation technologies and infrastructure as code (IAC)

• Understanding of scripting languages like PowerShell, Python, or Bash

• Solid capabilities for collaboration and communication

• Ability to function both individually and as a team

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.