EDIFECS Developer - Multiple Locations - Full-time / Part-time

Transform health care and change the way consumers engage with technology.

Sounds like a big challenge, right? Here, at Optum, you have the opportunity to achieve great things while you showcase your passion and technical expertise as an Applications Developer. You'll be inspired by working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in technology who bring compassion, energy and focus to their work every day on a mission to change health care as we know it. Join us! Come share who you are and start doing your life's best work(sm)

As part of our development team, you will predominantly be involved in building business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications. You'll stretch your skills and grow your careers as a primary contributor in designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with the established specifications and business requirements in order to deliver business value. This role will be working on end to end on a core administration platform onsite at our client locations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Predict emerging customer needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them


• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business


• Participate in the development of business strategy


• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives


• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches


• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams


• Responsible for meeting or exceeding all defined target goals and milestone dates for the project in order to ensure its overall success


• Develop use cases and user stories that describe application flows


• Re-engineer processes to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency


• Communicate design to all stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree


• Open to 100% Travel


• Configure and develop, test, implement and maintain application software working with established processes


• Knowledge/experience of EDIFECS Transaction manager, EDIFECS Application manager, Xengine, Spec Builder, EDIFECS HTR (Healthcare Transaction Repository)


• Proficient in Java script, Core Java and Sql Server and JDBC


• Strong EDI knowledge – 834, 837, 835, 277CA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Located in Minneapolis, MN; Hartford, CT; Basking Ridge, NJ

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)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.




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.

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