The Role
Design and architect large-scale, cloud-native healthcare applications with enterprise security (HIPAA/HITRUST). Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, implement IaC (Terraform/Azure), CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), AKS/Helm deployments, service mesh (Istio), API gateway security (OIDC/OAuth2, mTLS), event-driven architectures (Azure Event Hubs), search/analytics (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch), and troubleshoot production systems.
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Requisition Number: 2374850
Lead Software Engineer - Irving, TX - 2374850
EMPLOYER: Optum Services Inc.
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer
LOCATION: 909 Hidden Ridge Dr, Suite 200, Irving, TX, 75038 (Position reports to the Irving, TX office and allows for partial telecommuting.)
DUTIES: Design, architect, and develop complex, large-scale software applications in compliance with enterprise-grade standards, security frameworks, and best practices for regulated environments. Collaborate with product managers, solution architects, UX designers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate intricate business requirements into highly optimized technical specifications and cloud-native architectures. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving adoption of advanced design patterns, Infrastructure-asCode principles, and secure coding practices. Conduct rigorous code and architecture reviews to enforce compliance with performance, resiliency, and HIPAA/HITRUST security mandates. Troubleshoot and resolve mission-critical production issues across distributed systems, leveraging deep knowledge of microservices, API gateways, and event-driven architectures. Continuously evaluate emerging technologies-such as service mesh, and advanced observability frameworks-and integrate them into platform modernization initiatives. Lead planning, estimation, and execution of multi-phase development projects, ensuring zero-downtime deployments, automated compliance validation, and alignment with strategic business objectives. Position reports to the Irving, TX office and allows for partial telecommuting.
REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the position offered or a computer-related occupation. Position requires 3 years experience in each of the following: Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration and enterprise-grade Azure application engineering for multi-region cloud ecosystems, Terraform module composition, and secure Key Vault integration alongside virtual network segmentation, private endpoint configuration, storage account lifecycle governance, and event-driven architectures utilizing Azure Event Hubs with deterministic failover strategies. Cloud security engineering in HIPAA-regulated environments, including cryptographic key rotation choreography, PHI pseudonymization/tokenization pipelines across distributed systems. Continuous Integration and Delivery frameworks implementing declarative pipelines (Jenkins DSL or GitHub Actions) with multi-stage gating, policy-as-code enforcement, bluegreen/canary deployment orchestration, and automated rollback for mission-critical workloads. GitHub Actions workflow authoring for containerized microservices, incorporating secrets management, compliance validation gates, and environment promotion integrated with Helmbased AKS deployments. Identity and API governance across IDX and enterprise API gateways, implementing OIDC/OAuth2 token and claim models, mTLS enforcement, hierarchical rate-limiting, DLP/redaction policies, and pre-publish guardrail engines for zero-defect onboarding. Distribute search and analytics engineering using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch with Index Lifecycle Management (ILM). Event streaming architecture with Azure Event Hubs with schema registry integration JSON Schema, Avro, and Protobuf. Service mesh security engineering using Istio for end-to-end mTLS, traffic segmentation, and zero-trust enforcement across Kubernetes clusters hosting regulated healthcare workloads. Implementing Guardian-based RBAC provisioning and tenancy models, ensuring least-privilege access and auditability. Drive analytics modernization by engineering ingestion pipelines and dashboards, PHI-compliant data processing, and executive reporting at multi-terabyte scale. and * API Gateway architecture and security engineering leveraging Spring Cloud Gateway for enterprise-scale traffic orchestration, implementing OIDC/OAuth2 token and claim models, mutual TLS (mTLS) enforcement, hierarchical rate-limiting algorithms, combined with reactive programming paradigms Project Reactor.
RATE OF PAY: $175,000.00-$218,880.00/per year
Please apply via careers.uhg.com and search for job #2374850
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)
UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as matching 401k and an employee stock purchase plan.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
Lead Software Engineer - Irving, TX - 2374850
EMPLOYER: Optum Services Inc.
JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer
LOCATION: 909 Hidden Ridge Dr, Suite 200, Irving, TX, 75038 (Position reports to the Irving, TX office and allows for partial telecommuting.)
DUTIES: Design, architect, and develop complex, large-scale software applications in compliance with enterprise-grade standards, security frameworks, and best practices for regulated environments. Collaborate with product managers, solution architects, UX designers, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate intricate business requirements into highly optimized technical specifications and cloud-native architectures. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, driving adoption of advanced design patterns, Infrastructure-asCode principles, and secure coding practices. Conduct rigorous code and architecture reviews to enforce compliance with performance, resiliency, and HIPAA/HITRUST security mandates. Troubleshoot and resolve mission-critical production issues across distributed systems, leveraging deep knowledge of microservices, API gateways, and event-driven architectures. Continuously evaluate emerging technologies-such as service mesh, and advanced observability frameworks-and integrate them into platform modernization initiatives. Lead planning, estimation, and execution of multi-phase development projects, ensuring zero-downtime deployments, automated compliance validation, and alignment with strategic business objectives. Position reports to the Irving, TX office and allows for partial telecommuting.
REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 3 years of experience in the position offered or a computer-related occupation. Position requires 3 years experience in each of the following: Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration and enterprise-grade Azure application engineering for multi-region cloud ecosystems, Terraform module composition, and secure Key Vault integration alongside virtual network segmentation, private endpoint configuration, storage account lifecycle governance, and event-driven architectures utilizing Azure Event Hubs with deterministic failover strategies. Cloud security engineering in HIPAA-regulated environments, including cryptographic key rotation choreography, PHI pseudonymization/tokenization pipelines across distributed systems. Continuous Integration and Delivery frameworks implementing declarative pipelines (Jenkins DSL or GitHub Actions) with multi-stage gating, policy-as-code enforcement, bluegreen/canary deployment orchestration, and automated rollback for mission-critical workloads. GitHub Actions workflow authoring for containerized microservices, incorporating secrets management, compliance validation gates, and environment promotion integrated with Helmbased AKS deployments. Identity and API governance across IDX and enterprise API gateways, implementing OIDC/OAuth2 token and claim models, mTLS enforcement, hierarchical rate-limiting, DLP/redaction policies, and pre-publish guardrail engines for zero-defect onboarding. Distribute search and analytics engineering using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch with Index Lifecycle Management (ILM). Event streaming architecture with Azure Event Hubs with schema registry integration JSON Schema, Avro, and Protobuf. Service mesh security engineering using Istio for end-to-end mTLS, traffic segmentation, and zero-trust enforcement across Kubernetes clusters hosting regulated healthcare workloads. Implementing Guardian-based RBAC provisioning and tenancy models, ensuring least-privilege access and auditability. Drive analytics modernization by engineering ingestion pipelines and dashboards, PHI-compliant data processing, and executive reporting at multi-terabyte scale. and * API Gateway architecture and security engineering leveraging Spring Cloud Gateway for enterprise-scale traffic orchestration, implementing OIDC/OAuth2 token and claim models, mutual TLS (mTLS) enforcement, hierarchical rate-limiting algorithms, combined with reactive programming paradigms Project Reactor.
RATE OF PAY: $175,000.00-$218,880.00/per year
Please apply via careers.uhg.com and search for job #2374850
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)
UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as matching 401k and an employee stock purchase plan.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
Skills Required
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience in the position or a computer-related occupation
- 3 years experience with Infrastructure-as-Code orchestration for enterprise-grade Azure multi-region applications
- 3 years experience with Terraform module composition
- 3 years experience integrating Azure Key Vault with secure key management and cryptographic key rotation
- 3 years experience with Azure networking: virtual network segmentation, private endpoint configuration, and storage account lifecycle governance
- 3 years experience with event-driven architectures using Azure Event Hubs and deterministic failover strategies
- 3 years experience in cloud security engineering for HIPAA-regulated environments, including PHI pseudonymization/tokenization pipelines
- 3 years experience implementing CI/CD declarative pipelines (Jenkins DSL or GitHub Actions) with multi-stage gating, policy-as-code, blue/green or canary deployments, and automated rollback
- 3 years experience authoring GitHub Actions workflows for containerized microservices and Helm-based AKS deployments
- 3 years experience with identity and API governance across enterprise API gateways, implementing OIDC/OAuth2 token/claim models and mTLS enforcement
- 3 years experience implementing hierarchical rate-limiting, DLP/redaction policies, and pre-publish guardrails for APIs
- 3 years experience with distributed search/analytics using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and Index Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- 3 years experience with schema registry integration for Event Hubs using JSON Schema, Avro, and Protobuf
- 3 years experience with service mesh security engineering using Istio for mTLS, traffic segmentation, and zero-trust across Kubernetes clusters
- 3 years experience implementing RBAC provisioning and tenancy models (Guardian-based or equivalent) to ensure least-privilege access and auditability
- 3 years experience with API Gateway architecture and security engineering leveraging Spring Cloud Gateway and reactive programming (Project Reactor)
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues each pay period with eight paid U.S. holidays plus a floating holiday, and generous time away is consistently emphasized. This breadth supports planned and unplanned time off beyond standard vacation days.
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Parental & Family Support — Six weeks of paid parental leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, Bright Horizons back‑up care, and adoption assistance signal strong family-oriented support. EAP access with counseling sessions further extends help to employees and their households.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, Calm app membership, tuition reimbursement, commuter and FSA accounts, and broad employee discounts expand everyday wellbeing resources. Free or low‑cost virtual visits complement these lifestyle supports.
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
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