Manager for Services and Interfaces (SOA)- Basking Ridge, NJ

As part of our Optum Technology Exchange Leadership Team, You will be accountable for managing technical personnel throughout the design, development, testing and production support process in a high-volume transactional environment. The perfect candidate for this role will have experience designing and developing service layer components (web services and data services) for web-based applications. They will have had hands on experience with SOA design and implementation. We are looking for a leader that has hands on technical experience and can speak to non-technical clients. This is an external client facing role where you will need to travel 25%-50%, platooning as required out to client sites to gain experience and interface with the customers during the project kick off. Two to three months after a project is underway the travel will decrease.

Responsibilities:

• Strives to be a thought leader and advanced practitioner in creative tools and tactics; forward-thinking in understanding the emerging tools, technologies, and business practices and progressive in learning the application of these tools and practices.


• Success bringing people together to meet common goals, evidenced by facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills


• Effective communication skills, evidenced by successful executive level interactions and presentation experiences


• Proven capacity to handle ambiguity


• Ability to manage multiple deliverables, people, and projects and prioritize work accordingly


• Success working within matrixed teams and with partners (internal and external) to deliver solution


• Works at highest technical advisory level on the most difficult analysis and design assignments.


• Plan, organize and lead technical aspects of large scale projects to successful conclusion.


• Will be considered the Senior Technical subject matter expert.


• Ability to lead others toward technical accomplishment, as a collaborative project team, in order to achieve project goals.


• Ability to adapt quickly to fast-paced change


• Plan and oversee project delivery, act as an escalation point for delivery issues.


• Hands on Management style, able to jump in when needed.


• Determine and assesse need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary.


• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise IT development resources, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.


• Participate in issue resolution and change control processes.


• Provide career guidance and management of employee career paths, training agendas and work assignments of IT staff.


• Must have proven success leading technical teams and projects within complex application and organizational environments

Required

• 7 or more years of experience designing and developing service layer components (web services and data services) for web-based applications


• 7 or more years SOA design and implementation experience


• 7 or more years Java and HTML experience


• 5 or more years of experience Managing Technical Staff through design, development, testing and production support personnel in a high-volume transactional environment


• 5 or more years of large-scale portal development, deployment and suppor

Assets

• Healthcare industry experience a strong plus

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM

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UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.