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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

About this job

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.

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 solution delivery following Agile methodology


  • Develop and manage project delivery plans for scheduled commitments


  • Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives


  • Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences


  • Facilitate and coordinate JAD sessions with cross-functional application teams


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


  • Lead dependency matrix, assumptions for the assigned project

Requirements

Required Qualifications:



  • Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience.


  • 5+ years of full Software Development Life Cycle experience


  • 5+ years of experience working as a Project Lead


  • 5+ years of experience in Microsoft Suite including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel


  • 3+ years of expertise in Agile Methodologies including experience as Scrum Master


  • 3+ years of experience in leading discussions with cross-functional teams

 


Preferred Qualifications:



  • Health care industry experience

 


Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity 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, 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.

 

 

Job Keywords: Application Analyst, Software Development Life Cycle, SDLC, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, MN, Minnesota