Primary Responsibilities:
- Design & build microservices using Core Java and Spring (Boot/Cloud)
- Implement RESTful APIs with comprehensive error handling, idempotency, retry strategies, and observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts)
- Process healthcare EDI data (X12, HL7) including validation, transformation, mapping, and versioning; collaborate with product and data teams on schemas and contracts
- Develop integration flows; Apache Camel (or equivalent) for routing, mediation, and protocol handling
- Own CI/CD with Maven/Gradle for build/publish; enforce quality gates (unit/integration tests, code coverage)
- Deploy and run on Azure: containerization (Docker), orchestration (AKS), configuration, secrets, and managed services (e.g., Event Hubs, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault)
- Performance & reliability: profile services, tune JVM/Spring, optimize throughput/latency, and implement backpressure/circuit breakers
- Security & compliance: enforce authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC), input validation, encryption in transit/at rest; support auditability aligned to healthcare data standards
- Documentation & governance: API specs (OpenAPI/Swagger), runbooks, data lineage, and change management
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and incident postmortems
- 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:
- 7+ years of backend engineering with Core Java and Spring Boot/Cloud (expert level)
- Experience designing microservices and platform integrations in production environments
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL datastores; schema design and migration strategies
- Azure cloud experience (AKS, ACR, Event Hubs/Service Bus, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Monitor/App Insights)
- Hands-on with X12 (e.g., 837, 835, 270/271, 276/277) and/or HL7 v2/FHIR data formats - parsing, validation, transformation
- Proficient with build tooling: Maven and Gradle; dependency management, multi module projects, and artifact versioning
- Solid REST API development with error handling, monitoring, and observability (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry/App Insights)
- Solid understanding of messaging patterns (pub/sub, event driven architecture), resilience (retries, timeouts, circuit breakers), and transactional boundaries
- Proven excellent collaboration and communication skills; comfortable driving designs end to end
Preferred Qualification:
- Camel experience
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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We’re the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our global technology team consists of more than 30,000 innovators from around the world passionate about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care system through modern analytics, comprehensive clinical expertise, innovative technologies and extensive experience in improving operational and clinical performance.
As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.
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