Application Developer - Schaumberg, IL - Full-time / Part-time

Position Description:

 

Energize your career with one of
Healthcare’s fastest growing companies.  

 

You dream of a great career with a
great company - where you can make an impact and help people. We dream of
giving you the opportunity to do just this.  And with the incredible
growth of our business, it’s a dream that definitely can come true. Already one
of the world’s leading Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly
pursuing new ways to operate our Service Centers, improve our Service levels
and help people lead healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a
difference and right now, we are living it up.

 

This opportunity is with one of our
most exciting business areas: Optum - a growing part of our family of companies
that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 14 leader.

 

Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans
live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms,
conditions, and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their
Healthcare needs, and stay on track with their Health goals. No other business
touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every
action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships,
Innovation, and Performance.

 

Primary Responsibilities:


Design, implement and maintain TIBCO applications
within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Develop, test, implement and maintain application
software working with established processes
Communicate effectively with other engineers and QA
Establish, refine and integrate development and test
environment tools and software as needed
Identify production and non-production application
issues
Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize
applications of TIBCO developed projects
Provide technical support and consultation for TIBCO
application and infrastructure questions
Serve as a mentor to less experienced developers 
Ability to work with systems analyst to collect and
understand requirement and translate that into IT functional requirement and
technical solution architecture blueprint.
Hands on application developer with extensive
development experience in building and supporting TIBCO based web services
using both SOAP and REST.
Extensive hands-on experience in development/
deployment/ integration/ Support using Spring MVC framework.
Perform code review and identify functional gaps in
end-to-end application development life cycle.
Implement best practices/standards on IBM WebSphere
based runtime environment.
Ability to analyze application inter-dependencies with
various infrastructure components such as Active Directory Server, WAS,
and ESB to help perform root cause analysis. 
Strong working knowledge and prior development
experience in the following areas: Java/J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JSF, Ajax,
Rational Application Developer 8.x or Eclipse 3.x, OO design, Web Services
development and governance lifecycle.
Must have excellent written and verbal communication
skills
Will be required to formulate and define technical
scope and objectives based on end user needs and through understanding of
business systems and requirement. 
24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis to
provide application support.
Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.
Works with less structured, more complex issues.
Serves as a resource to others.

Required Qualifications:


Bachelor's Degree (or higher) with previous Java
Development experience (writing code) OR High School Diploma/GED with 1+
year of professional Java Development experience
Previous exposure to full Lifecycle Development Process
(SDLC)
Able to work one week on-call rotation every 6 weeks or
as needed




Preferred Qualifications:


Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in a Computer Science
field
Health care industry experience
previous TIBCO development experience
TIBCO certification
UnitedHealth Group is working to create the health care system of tomorrow. Already Fortune 14, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.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.