Java Architect

Need immediate joiners.

Location: Pan India

As a Lead Architect, you will be responsible for the overall solution design and architecture of applications in Optum, with a focus on improving the provider experience and transforming it to a modernized platform. You will play a crucial role in major application redesign initiatives, driving solution design, development, performance tuning, acceptance testing, and implementation. This is an opportunity to be a hands-on agent of change and contribute to the transformation of Optum's applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the architecture and design of an application, providing hands-on technical leadership

• Demonstrate an advanced level of understanding and application of general systems concepts and their integration with business problem resolution

• Ensure solutions align with business and IT goals/objectives

• Identify enhancements to improve supportability, operability, or performance of applications within the application group and develop a business case for suggested enhancements

• Collaborate with business partners/product owners to understand desired system functionality

• Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification

• Participate in design activities, monitor task completion, and ensure project progress

• Exercise independent judgment and discretion to prioritize, plan, and manage team activities

• Review code and provide feedback on best practices and performance improvements

• Provide guidance to team members to enhance productivity

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Set attainable goals for team members and guide them to success

• Deliver all project deliverables on scope, on time, and on budget

Qualifications:

Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience

• 5+ years of experience within a Java environment

• 1+ years of production experience with cloud technologies

• In-depth knowledge of systems development life cycle and/or operational maintenance environment

• Strong organization and effective communication skills

• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and provide solutions as required

• Experience delivering software using an Agile methodology

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience developing project cost and benefit estimates, including identification and evaluation of alternatives

• Provide training and assistance on a full range of technical issues to the broader team

• Experience with prototyping and performance tuning applications across multiple operating systems, languages, and computing platforms

• Understanding of distributed architecture design principles

• Experience working in the healthcare industry

• Experience with business rule engines

• Experience with the following technologies:

• Streaming technology (e.g., Kafka)

• Cloud platforms (e.g., OpenShift)

• Databases (e.g., NoSQL, GraphDB)

• Microservices architecture

• Web development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular)