The Role
Lead design, development, and delivery of scalable, cloud-native Java applications. Collaborate with stakeholders and architects, integrate AI/ML features, implement event-driven architectures (Kafka), optimize performance, mentor engineers, manage CI/CD and observability, and ensure resilient microservices from design through production.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2370148
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:
Required Qualifications:
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.
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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:
- Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, Partner Solution Architects, and Technical Architects to ensure reliable and accurate solutions that meet client outcomes
- Communicate new product and solution requirements to the solution development and management team
- Lead the team towards technical accomplishments, fostering collaborative efforts and achieving critical project goals
- Independently communicate with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project priorities and deadlines
- Perform analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, and documentation tasks
- Enhance existing products and create new offerings utilizing the latest technology
- Build and lead a product development team to deliver projects that meet business objectives and solve critical user problems
- Collaborate with key leaders to develop strategic projects, streamline decision-making, and manage the engineering team
- Act as a technical leader, managing code reviews, post-project analysis, and articulating project success factors
- Provide leadership for planning, recruiting, and managing a world-class technology, product development, and application engineering team
- Continuously assess and redesign processes to ensure they are repeatable, sustainable, and scalable
- 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:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in end to end software development, delivering scalable, high performance modern applications, systems
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML driven features into production systems, including data pipelines, model driven workflows, and optimization techniques
- Hands-on experience with event driven architecture, Apache Kafka, messaging, and asynchronous processing
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP) for building, deploying, and operating production grade applications
- Solid experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Redis), including data modeling and query optimization
- Solid expertise in Java , Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate
- Demonstrated expertise in applications with multiple upstream and downstream dependencies, including service orchestration, resilience patterns, and failure handling
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven/Gradle, and modern testing methodologies. Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability using metrics, centralized logging, distributed tracing, and alerting
- Proven ability to design and deliver enterprise level solutions aligned with business goals using microservices architecture, cloud native application development, and distributed systems
- Proven solid focus on performance tuning and optimization, including JVM tuning, database optimization, API latency reduction, and capacity planning
- Proven solid leadership skills, mentoring junior engineers, managing cross functional teams, and overseeing delivery from concept to production
- Proven problem solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, enabling effective collaboration across 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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 7+ years hands-on end-to-end software development experience
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML driven features into production systems
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture and Apache Kafka
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP)
- Solid experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Solid experience with NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Redis)
- Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate
- Experience with microservices, service orchestration, resilience patterns, and failure handling
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven or Gradle
- Experience with monitoring, centralized logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and observability
- Proven focus on performance tuning and optimization including JVM tuning and database optimization
- Proven leadership skills, mentoring junior engineers and managing cross-functional teams
- Strong problem solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
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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Optum Offices
Hybrid Workspace
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.
Typical time on-site:
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