Senior Java Applications Developer - West Valley, UT - Full-time / Part-time

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.

The candidate would need to work with a distributed team to deliver high quality enhancements in a timely fashion. One of the key responsibilities would be the UI of the product, which is based on a Java/JSF/PrimeFaces framework.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, code, test, debug, document and support all types of applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value


• Develop pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends


• Lead development team to achieve key business objectives


• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives


• Collaborate with the team on application architecture design and decision-making


• Develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business


• Provide alternate design solutions along with project estimates


• Design and implement application enhancements in collaboration with different teams


• Troubleshoot production support issues post release deployment and come up with solutions - ability to solve complex production issues


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


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


• Participate in the development of business strategy


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


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


• Function as a mentor for junior developers, providing assistance where needed


• Handle smaller projects completely on their own, including interactions with other teams and 3rd parties for design and architecture


• Involvement with senior management in terms of supplying input for key design and architecture decisions, as well as work estimation and resource planning

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise


• 7+ years of Java development experience


• 2+ years of leading software development efforts


• 2+ years of UI development experience on JSF or similar technologies


• 2+ years of JUnit experience


• 2+ years of enterprise software development experience


• 2+ years of WMQ or similar experience


• 2+ years of SOAP/REST web service experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in applicable area of expertise


• Healthcare 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: Healthcare, IT, technology, SOAP/REST, Java, UI, JSF, WMQ, West Valley, UT, Utah