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UnitedHealth Group

Software Engineering Lead

1 week ago• Gurgaon, India

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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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Responsibilities include working on new code delivery and triaging tickets, working with consuming applications and data provider for software defects that scrum team is not able to resolve
  • Ability to be flexible and work in a dynamic environment with daily code deployments and changes in priorities from Product Team
  • Working as part of scrum team to understand, analyze, and implement requirements into functional artifacts
  • Provide production and non-production support for incident tickets
  • Support application availability, reliability, and stability
  • Conduct performance testing, deploy code to test and production environments, and support and triage of testing for releases
  • Act as the liaison between Business, Developers and Scrum teams on requirements/scope/Change discussions to determine IT scope
  • Identify corresponding scope for all Technical Teams for the change considering opportunities for consolidation, enhancement, and retirement of related software/features
  • Create a Solution Document, Conduct Review Meetings with all stake holders for the Solution developed and for Hands off to Development Teams or vendor
  • Work closely with all SCRUM Teams ensure solution/Scope is understood completely and implemented successfully following UHG process/policies
  • Analyze and work to resolve the Defects reported by business by engaging appropriate teams
  • Adherence to Agile/Rally methodology, ServiceNow Process and Maintenance of related technical team documents

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Ability to work with infrastructure, network, database, and other IT support teams to triage issues impacting the application
  • Provide weekend production support for high impact issues on a rotation basis with other team members
  • 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:

    • BS / BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
    • Cloud Certified
    • AI/ML Certified
    • 7+ yrs of experience in Java
    • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins
    • 2+ years of experience with PowerShell
    • 2+ years of experience with ReactJS
    • Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
    • Experience with REST/ JSON SOAP APIs, Java 8 or higher, Spring Boot, CLT, Git, Jenkins, Microservices, Docker
    • Experience in any public Cloud, Machine Learning/Artificial
    • Experience with Graph QL, Java 11, Springboot
    • Experience on Databases, SQL programming, No SQL DBs (e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
    • Experience on building Streaming Solutions using Kafka
    • Experience with Automation Frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI, Spock
    • Experience in Kotlin, nodeJS, Avro schema, golang, prometheous, grafana, Kubernetes, ELK stack
    • Experience on implementing Automation (Unit/Functional/Regression) and Performance tuning techniques using Cucumber/Neoload
    • Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks
    • Experience in the healthcare industry
    • Dev Ops experience
    • Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro -services architecture
    • Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization
    • Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement
    • Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
    • Good understanding of Microservices architecture
    • Expertise in developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
    • Expertise in a Contained based platform, e.g Openshift, Kubernetes, Rancher
    • Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment
    • Demonstrate being an avid supporter of the Open Source software community
    • Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
    • Ability to display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

    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.

    Client-provided location(s): Gurgaon, India, Bangalore, India, Noida, India
    Job ID: UHG-2278917
    Employment Type: FULL_TIME
    Posted: 2025-08-26T20:13:33

    Perks and Benefits

    • Health and Wellness

      • HSA
      • On-Site Gym
      • HSA With Employer Contribution
      • Health Insurance
      • Dental Insurance
      • Vision Insurance
      • Life Insurance
      • Short-Term Disability
      • Long-Term Disability
      • FSA

    • Parental Benefits

      • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
      • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave

    • Work Flexibility

      • Remote Work Opportunities

    • Office Life and Perks

      • Commuter Benefits Program

    • Vacation and Time Off

      • Leave of Absence
      • Personal/Sick Days
      • Paid Holidays
      • Paid Vacation

    • Financial and Retirement

      • Relocation Assistance
      • Performance Bonus
      • Stock Purchase Program
      • 401(K) With Company Matching
      • 401(K)

    • Professional Development

      • Promote From Within
      • Shadowing Opportunities
      • Access to Online Courses
      • Tuition Reimbursement

    • Diversity and Inclusion

      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program

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