Lead Software Engineer - Optum Technology - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

7h•Remote

About The Position

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science Engineering
8+ years of overall IT experience
Experience in security-focused DevOps
Hands-on experience deploying and monitoring of applications
Experience working with CI/CD technologies such as GHA
Proven experience operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation
Experience developing / coding software components in Java
Experience with CI/CD, Maven, XML, Web services, RESTAPI's, Microservices
Experience in Databases, SQL programming, Streaming Solutions using Kafka
Knowledge of AI tools
Proficient with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as Python, Power Automate, Microsoft Graph API, Shell Scripting languages
Proven communication skills, ability to articulate complex issues understandably and engagingly
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Responsibilities

Design, Development and maintenance of application
Monitoring, logging, and analyzing application performance and suggesting the alerting mechanism to catch the production issues sooner
Conduct vulnerability assessments and fix the issues
Partner with Development team and suggest proactive enhancement to make the application better
Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity
Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment
Conduct periodic access reviews and monitor user activity in the production environment
Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives for the application
Advice on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability
Use AI tools to automate, optimize, and improve the software development lifecycle by analyzing data and providing intelligent recommendations
Implement the AIOps for analyzing logs and metrics to enhance observability and incident response
Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts
Maintain documentation around current application functionalities and security controls
Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of Java developed projects
Work on the PLM activities
Partner closely with the stakeholders, upstream and downstream applications and create alerts for dependent applications failures