Lead Software Engineer / Service Area Tech Lead - Remote
Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: La Crosse
Posted on: March 12, 2023
Job Description:
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by
technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The
work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by
connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and
resources they need to feel their best. Come make an impact on the
communities we serve as we help advance health equity on a global
scale. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits,
a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, career growth
opportunities and your life's best work.(sm)
Software engineering is the application of engineering to the
design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of
software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will
cover all primary development activity across all technology
functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our
applications, products, and services and to understand customer
needs and to develop product roadmaps.
These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design,
coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools
analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new
development, operations, and delivery. With every role in the
company, each position has a requirement for building quality into
every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new
techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common
utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around
technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on
future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new
and innovative ways.
- Company thought leader
- Functional SME
- Broad business approach
- Resource to senior leadership
- Develops pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends The
Service Area Technical Lead serves as the technology leader working
to ensure engineering operational excellence. The role is
responsible for the overall operational excellence of the service
area to ensure we have high performing feature teams that are
tacking the highest priority work and leveraging current
development practices to delivery high quality features that align
to the business needs. You will subscribe to principles of the LeSS
agile framework in your leadership style. You will focus on
execution as well as serve as a mentor in leading through digital
and organizational transformation.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within
the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Engage with product and technology leaders to gain
understanding of the business strategy, vision and priority
- Lead multiple engineering/feature teams & drive operational
excellence.
- Implement Agile software development and automation across all
technology platforms
- Identify gaps in skills in your Service Area and align those
gaps to the upskilling curriculum, using influence to reprioritize
as needed.
- Actively participate in all Service Area Events (Daily Scrum,
Refinement, Sprint Review, Retrospectives)
- Serve as a partner to the Service Area Product Owner (SAPO) and
Agile Practitioner (AP) to improve our operational excellence,
identify areas of opportunity as well as celebrate successes
- Serve as technical co-owner-in partnership with other Service
Area leaders-for the platforms, portals and systems that underlie
our service areas.
- Partners with the SAPO, Lead Software Engineer (LSE) and teams
when vulnerabilities, issues or remediation's are required
- Provides guidance to the teams during product refinement,
analysis, solutioning, and delivery of the work.
- Regular 1:1s with all team members in the Service Area from the
Technology Organization
- Provide meaningful feedback to the Talent Advocates (people
managers)
- Provide an excellent onboarding experience all new team members
joining the service area to include team alignment, applications,
processes, and tools
- Observe and update policies related to our Software Development
Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Assists the AP and Feature teams in clearing large
obstacles
- Keep current with modern technologies and enterprise systems to
maintain a wide body of knowledge; regularly teach concepts for
colleagues.
- Serves as a mentor to colleagues in regard to developing solid
business relationships and leading through organizational
transformation Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- History of success with application modernization and
rationalization
- Track record of leading through other leaders
- Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an
enterprise-wide perspective
- Expertise in Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Demonstrated track record of developing enterprise platforms
and leading large scale/high transaction digital experiences
- Proven expertise applying architecture and engineering
practices to drive business value
- Experience creating & owning business-enabling multiple
technology roadmaps
- Experience leading through influence in a complex, large,
matrixed, global environment
- History of executing with excellence: setting purposeful goals
and achieving them through intelligent actions, which balancing
competing priorities without losing momentum behind execution
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in building web applications
and RESTful web services
- Fosters accountability, transparent communication, innovation
and leading by example
- Outstanding collaboration, solid influencing, problem solving
and negotiation skills
- Knowledge of networking and internet protocols
- Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI),
understanding of OWASP You'll be rewarded and recognized for your
performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you
clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as
provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology,
Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent 4+ years of
experience
- 4+ years of experience in leading multi-faceted development
Teams
- Experience leading in an Agile organization
- Experience with building relationships with business
leaders
- U.S Citizenship Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of industry experience in full-stack development
- Candidates will have 3+ of these qualifications:
- Relevant Microsoft Certifications
- Experience with .NET Core or similar object-oriented
programming language
- Experience with Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks
/ libraries
- Experience with application containerization, deployment, and
orchestration across environments
- Experience with CI/CD and test automation
- Experience with building and deploying containers
- Experience in deployment patterns including Blue/Green,
Rolling, and Canary
- Experience with MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or other similar relational
database management
- Experience with Web APIs and (REST) based communication
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools,
Terraform
- Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure, AWS, or
Google
- Experience in automated configuration management tools such as
Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
- Experience with FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53
- Experience writing and testing Web parts, content types, event
handlers, custom workflows, and site definitions
- Experience operating within a Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Framework
- Government contracting experience As a requirement of
UnitedHealth Group's contract with the Department of Defense, this
position requires U.S. citizenship and proof of favorable
adjudication following submission of Department of Defense eQuip
Form SF86 , (the National Agency Check Legal and Credit or NACLC).
Successful completion of the NACLC process is a requirement for
continued employment in this role. NACLC processing will be
initiated by our TRICARE Security Officer post-offer and can take
3-6 months for a final decision communication from the Department
of Defense. Candidates will be allowed to begin employment with
UnitedHealth Group in this role based on an interim clearance, and
final results will be communicated as they are received. Failure to
obtain final NACLC approval will result in termination from this
role.
Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler
and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all
aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier
world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We
bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health
care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and
accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams
to help solve important challenges.
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to
UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York City, or
Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York City, or Washington
residents is $101,200 to $184,000. Pay is based on several factors
including but not limited to education, work experience,
certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group
offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package . click
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