For those who want to invent the future of health care, here’s your opportunity. We’re going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation’s military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.

To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the Lead Software Engineer will play a key role: working within our legacy application as we update it to a cloud-native platform which follows modern design standards.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

Overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex projects
Leading the development team in the design, development, coding, testing, deployment, and debugging of applications
Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities for them that helps them succeed in their business goals.
Work closely with other lead engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development
Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules
Project management – prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
Operational Excellence – build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services
Mentoring, career management and development of dotted line reports within the teams aligned to you
Champion quality best practices and Test-Driven Development
Lead adoption of Agile best practices
Incident response – assist with troubleshooting and determining solutions for issues identified in war rooms

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

4+ years of experience in full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment including Doman Driven Design and Event Driven Architecture
4+ years of experience working with and/or responding to critical incidents
4+ years of experience with building web applications and RESTful web services
4+ years of experience working with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or other similar relational database management system
2+ years of experience working with .NET Core or similar object oriented programming language
2+ years of experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks/ libraries
1+ years of experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments along with CI/CD and test automation
1+ years of experience building cloud-native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider
United States Citizenship
Ability to obtain favorable adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip Form SF86 (PDF)
Must be able to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field
1+ years of experience with networking and internet protocols
1+ years of experience troubleshooting applications running within Kubernetes
1+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure (IaC) and automated provisioning and configuration management
1+ years of experience with Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
1+ years of experience with SOLID architectural principles and domain-driven design
1+ years of experience with microservices architecture

As a requirement of UnitedHealth Group’s contract with the Department of Defense, this position requires U.S. citizenship and proof of favorable adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip Form SF86, (the National Agency Check Legal and Credit or NACLC). Successful completion of the NACLC process is a requirement for continued employment in this role. NACLC processing will be initiated by our TRICARE Security Officer post-offer and can take 3-6 months for a final decision communication from the Department of Defense. Candidates will be allowed to begin employment with UnitedHealth Group in this role based on an interim clearance, and final results will be communicated as they are received. Failure to obtain final NACLC approval will result in termination from this role.