UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Enterprise Information Security business is hiring for a Lead Software Engineer who has a passion for learning, is a solid problem solver, and a critical thinker with broad technical experience. We need someone who has a background and experience with both legacy and new product development utilizing DevOps delivery. This role requires Agile team leadership, hands on technical skill, and deep problem-solving skills for a large, complex Microsoft .NET full stack application development project. Core application capabilities are focused on E2E Identity and Access Management (IAM).

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designs, develops, and implements solutions that exemplify modern software engineering practices
• Enhances system design/architecture to simplify and improve resiliency in system interactions and dependencies
• Demonstrates ability to quickly learn and appropriately apply new technologies to solve engineering
• Delivery requires automated test (manual testing as needed) mindfulness
• Engineering focus on enriching the Customer Experience through high quality functional delivery, efficiency, testability, reliability, scalability, availability, and security of applications
• Reuses and/or develops for reuse of complex components or capabilities to solve complex problems and needs
• Implements and continuously improves agile software delivery, code management, and operations practices
• Contributes to or helps drive architecture/design, technology, and tool decisions and implementations
• Maintains current perspective on technology trends, applying that to personal and team capability growth. Actively participate in code review
• Foster high performance, collaborative technical work
• Mentors junior team members in modern engineering practices, technologies, and patterns
• Owns the technical debt backlog and high-level plan
• Present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders

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:

• Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience with C# and .NET Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• 4+ years of experience with RESTful Web API Development
• 4+ years of experience using SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, & SQL profiling / performance tuning
• 2+ years of experience with Entity Framework or equivalent experience with other data access technologies
• 2+ years of experience with Front end development (React / Blazer Web Assembly preferred)
• Expertise in Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Demonstrated skills in active listening with the ability to express oneself clearly and effectively
• Demonstrated skills and experience in collaborating, influencing, problem solving and negotiating

Preferred Qualifications:

• Git Source Code Management, Test Automation, Azure DevOps Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Experience with Azure Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Microservice background, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools (e.g. Terraform)
• Identity and Access Management experience
• Directory Services Development, Authentication and Provisioning experience
• Requirements and technical specification documentation experience
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, MS Visio)
• Proven ability to foster accountability, transparent communication, innovation and leading by example
• Proven solid organizational skills and focus on accuracy and attention to detail

Candidates that are local are preferred (even if telecommuter) with the ability to work at the Eden Prairie Optum Campus with a flexible # of days / week or for the occasional Sprint Planning / Ceremony, etc. Otherwise, East coast and Central time zones are easier to coordinate work with India and US – this is to facilitate as much overlap with work times as possible across geographies.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.