Team Lead - Eden Prairie, MN - Full-time / Part-time

There's no better time to bring your software engineering career to the health care industry.

You take pride in designing and developing solutions. And not just any solutions -- solutions that are scalable and can be used in the marketplace to make an impact on the lives of millions. At Optum, you can bring your passion for innovation to an Agile environment where some of the smartest people you'll ever work with are working together to help make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to showcase your technical expertise, making historic transformation in health care and changing the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. You will be challenged with delivering high quality software products to impact the health care industry for the better. Here, you'll work at a pace you didn't know you had in you, your performance will be rewarded and, at the end of the day, you'll know you're doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and Mentor/guide other software engineers within the team


• Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing


• Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders


• Design reusable components, frameworks and libraries


• Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions


• Participate in an Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases every 3 weeks through Sprints


• Design and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business


• Identify areas of process improvements and build automated solutions to increase efficiency & productivity.


• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance


• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required


• Influence peers without authority by inspiring them to use cutting edge tools, follow best practices and build best of the breed solutions

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years in Java/J2EE, SOA design principles, web services, ESB, ORM tools like Hibernate, ibatis etc.


• 3+ years of experience in building automated deployment scripts via ANT etc.


• Experience in IBM WTX, WESB and Mediations


• Experience in performance tuning and scaling software systems.


• Experience in Source control administration. i.e SVN, CVS etc.


• Experience in UNIX scripting and commands.


• 2+ years of experience delivering software using an Agile/Scrum methodology


• Expertise across the entire SLDC


• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working Knowledge of EDI 5010 formats, specifically EDI 837


• Demonstrated success designing and building high-quality, highly scalable commercial software applications


• 3-5 years of Oracle PL/SQL experience – Preferably skilled in reviewing AWR reports and fine tuning complex queries


• Basic understanding of mainframe systems and how GDG's work


• Experience in the health care industry

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, 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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