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:
- Partner with Business, Technical and Strategic Product Owner to meet project commitments in an agile framework rapidly delivering value to our customers via technology solutions.
- Contribute to the applications technology stack and drive modern solutions to complex problems
- Participate in design and development of resilient, reliable, scalable and self-healing solutions to meet and exceed customer requirements
- Ensure that all parts of the application eco system are thoroughly and effectively covered with telemetry
- Eliminate churn and waste via automation of menial tasks
- Collaborate with engineers across partner-teams to build cohesive and optimal solutions
- Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Assist Delivery Manager in interviewing to build a team
- Be in sync with Architect for application Design
- Mentor more junior members of the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible
- 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
What you are like
- Have a great, positive attitude
- A natural leader - someone people are easily convinced to follow and emulate
- Never blocked. You find a way!
- Willing and eager to dive in and figure it out. No system is built from unicorn horn dust. It's just code
- You take extreme ownership and pride in your work
- Care deeply about team culture and actively influence a positive culture
- Will automate something so you don't have to do it twice
- You build everything as code: Infrastructure, pipeline, testing, monitoring, etc.
- Never stop learning
Required Qualifications:
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of current experience with languages such as .NET, C# as an engineer
- 4+ years of production experience with Azure cloud technologies (NOT Azure Devops), React, Github Actions & Terraforms
- 2+ years writing unit or integration tests
- Experience working with teams that leveraged three or more of the following: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, web applications, web services, application observability, and/or messaging/ stream architecture
- Previous IT full-stack engineering experience
- Deep understanding of software engineering and processes: design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile and dev-ops, as well as industry patterns for application architecture and integration
- AI/ML for team productivity or Business effectiveness like copilot etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- The more of these you have experience with, the better:
- Development experience in Docker, Cloud, Kubernetes, Data Streaming via Kafka/Event Hub
- Experience with technologies such as: HTML/Javascript, Playwright, NodeJS, Git, SOA
- Healthcare domain background
- Instrumenting apps with Azure AppInsights, and creating effective alarms and dashboards
- SRE principles (error budgets, alarming practices, etc)
