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:

Coding Frequency
Daily
Blast Radius
Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall Data architecture, patterns, and automation
Drives and promotes reusability
Problem Definition / Design
Implements component design in-line with predefined team architectural patterns
Creates design documents, for larger component work to gain alignment
Delivers designs aligning to appropriate componentized architectures and integration patterns
Can work autonomously
Seeks and incorporates feedback on solutions
Be able to identify and provide feedback on designs provided and implemented by others
Assesses dependencies, impacts, costs and time when weighing pros and cons
Solves complex problems
Assesses and interprets customer needs and requirements
Influence / Mentorship
Influences the team designs and solutions
Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands-on design sessions
Solid leader for team with impact beginning to extend outside of team
Seeks and acquires engineering mentorship
Assists Junior and mid-level and helps with problem solving related to complex bugs and issues
Code Reviews / Pull Requests
PR submissions follow highest standards and best practices
Contributes meaningfully to code reviews daily of teams work, providing collaborative guidance and feedback
Continues to receive guidance in own code reviews primarily around solution refinement, rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
Coding
Solves more complex problems
API's / Data Structures/ Data Models/Algorithms/ Application Sequences are thoughtfully designed
Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable and performant based on best practices and patterns
Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
Demonstrates sick coding skills with an obscene # of GitHub requests
Delivers solutions which are appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements
Delivers solutions with the appropriate toolset (languages, algorithms, patterns and frameworks) for the constraints and conditions of the business, team and product
Leaves code better than when they found it
Choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt, in alignment with sprint and program goals
Automated Efficiency
Incorporates automation in testing, build, and deployment processes to drive team efficiencies
Accountable for all aspects of build and deployment steps
Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes demonstrating measurable improvement
Operational Excellence
Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alarms into the definition of done for software
Actively drives and owns solution definition and remediation including root cause analysis and KT with team to ensure incidents do not repeat
Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket escalation
Manages and maintains on-call assignments and ensures coverage
Security
Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components and risks are addressed
Contributes to decision making and implementation related to hosting, deployments, and integration patters supporting secure software at all levels
Delivers solutions devoid of security vulnerabilities
Explains security standards to others
Identifies applicable security/data standards when reviewing requirements and recommends controls to ensure compliance
Build and maintain security tooling within automation pipeline
Design and implement features with a Security first mindset
Interviewing / Recruiting
Interviewing/recruiting is part of the job and not optional
Conducts phone screens and provides feedback for further evaluation
Active participant in engineering interviews Contributes to hire decisions using a calibrated bar for talent assessment
Leveraging network to identify/refer qualified candidates to fill team or org roles
Works directly with Talent Acquisition to coordinate the interviewing and hiring process
Agile Delivery
Works with product management to ensure stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on time finish
Unblocks the team when they're blocked
Limits work in progress by shipping features / deploying product often
Decomposes features into manageable stories/tasks
Customer / User Focus
Seeks out and values the perspective of user, while advocating for their needs
Understands what creates business or market impact and how design and delivery activities are related to that impact
Considers the user experience, business impact and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
Understands business impact of stability and resiliency
Aware of financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive SUS and NPS score improvement
Actively engages with users and customer feedback processes to improve personal and organization understanding of business, market, and customer’s perspectives
Demonstrates understanding of cost of quality (correctness, usability, availability) and ensures customer/market quality requirements are addressed in solution requirements and designs 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:

Bachelors degree
5+ years of experience
Working knowledge of AI/ML technologies  Deep understanding of most common security threats and patterns at both the application and infrastructure layers Background in healthcare

 

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.