Associate Software Engineering Manager

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:

• Being an integrated engineering leader for global teams and able to positively influence team members, peers, customers and stakeholders by leading product team of 10 members
• Provide product and software engineering leadership for the function by leading multiple scrum teams and own end to end implementation of solutions within schedule, budget and quality
• Establish and control code quality standards, development best practices, defect-free code delivery by providing technical oversight for Java, Managed File Transfer & Full stack development in Java/J2EE based enterprise grade applications
• End to end application Design, Development and DevOps implementation
• Propose and drive automation to reduce efforts of development, operations and maintenance
• Portfolio/Team management – Hiring, Employee Retention, Performance & Talent Management
• Define and measure key service SLA/KPI's and drive continuous improvement with
• Build stakeholder relationships and act as Trusted delivery partner
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7 years total product engineering experience with solid foundations on engineering architecture, design thinking with 3 years of managing large product teams experience
• Technical Management with experience in implementation of enterprise applications and lead engineering teams by coaching/mentoring them
• Solid technical and platform knowledge, including some or all of: Java Core, Spring, Angular open-source related technologies - SPLUNK, MySQL, Kafka, Queueing, Streaming, NoSQL, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes. Good understanding of Development processes and tools – Sonar, Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD
• Thorough understanding of product management framework, software engineering and computer science principles: object-oriented design, structured design, databases, algorithms, data structures, usability, debugging, and configuration management
• Azure Cloud knowledge
• Proven excellent interpersonal skills including written and verbal skills with the ability to create and maintain solid relationships with members of cross departmental teams

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.