Associate Software Engineer

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.

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we’re on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.

Come join in supporting the Enterprise Security & Resilience Office (ESRO) ensuring that UnitedHealth Group is prepared to recover key businesses more quickly and help support employees, customers and members, our providers, and impacted communities during crises. As a member of this team, you will be involved in building user-focused enhancements and innovative technical solutions to improve business efficiency through automation, while maintaining a security-centered focus.

Schedule : Full-time position, Monday – Friday with standard working hours. Occasional weekends may be needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with application owners and System Architect to execute system integrations; work with application owners to build understanding of systems or APIs involved in integrations
• Understand how integrations impact enterprise systems and risk management tools
• Develop software that meets user story acceptance criteria
• Innovate for user experience
• Thoughtfully apply automation to improve user efficiency
• Automate test cases for fellow developers’ work
• Support internal and external business partners in development and maintenance of system
• Support production users through monitoring and working incident tickets
• Attend standups to keep others informed of your progress and to collaborate with fellow team members
• Ensure system is securely developed for reusability and resiliency
• Ensure code and configuration support enterprise scalability
• Review API documentation to understand how to develop integrations with given APIs or systems
• Provide guidance and coaching to India-based developers
• Identify areas of optimization, performance improvements and user experience benefits that exceed customer expectations
• Servant Leader: Must be able to garner respect from the team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done
• Strategize all required data feeds that our customer needs and look to modernize import processes and potential to migrate core UHG confidential data back within our internal data lake and link this data back to Fusion via high-speed APIs
• Build an understanding of Business Continuity and Risk Management tools and trends
• Aware of current security trends ensuring we protect the business and our members

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Salesforce, Salesforce administration, Salesforce Platform Developer 1, tracking for PD2 (Bonus for Sales Cloud experience)
• Experience in software development
• Experience in Agile Scrum
• Understanding of development in Web 2.0 Technologies (Javascript, Angular, Ajax, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• CI/CD and test-driven development
• Automated testing tool experience
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and design patterns
• Debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. 2024 UnitedHealth Group. All rights reserved.

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