Software Engineer- JAVA and Production Support

Job Description

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:

- 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 and testing
- Designing and implementing product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
- Design, develop and test reusable frameworks, libraries and Java components
- Working very closely with Architecture group and driving technical solutions
- 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
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions
- 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
- 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:

- Graduation
- Experience working within the Software Development Life Cycle in a distributed environment
- Experience Java or J2EE Development
- Experience working within an Agile or Scrum Methodology
- Demonstrated proficiency in the following:

- Solves moderately complex problems and/or conducts moderately complex analysis for Java projects

- Application Build and Deployment using GitHub Actions, Maven

- Database - DB2, MySQL, Oracle

- Technologies: Java, Kafka, Cloud, Kubernetes

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.