About Company
If you’re going to change careers, why not look for an employer that’s out to change everything? If you have that kind of appetite for change, Optum is the right place for you. As part of the growing UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re driving innovation and change all over the world. That’s creating opportunity right here in India for people with energy, passion and a focus on quality. We’re driven to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health care system work better for everyone. We want to make a difference and that makes this the one job opportunity that can change everything for you.
As part of UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 6 company, Optum is a leading health services and technology company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 115,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines people, technology, data and action to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care.
Location: Hyderabad / Secunderabad, Bangalore / Bengaluru (WFH during Covid)
Description External
Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that’s improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn’t about another gadget, it’s about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There’s no room for error. Join us and start doing your life’s best work.(sm)
Optum Labs serves as United Health Groups innovation and advanced product hub. Our team conducts cutting-edge research in the health care space and incubates data-driven digital solutions which aim to improve patients health outcomes, clinicians experience, and reduce health care costs. Our teams leverage clinical expertise, applied research and advanced data analytics technologies such as AI and Machine Learning to enhance business products and specific services.
Responsibilities:
- As an Engineering Leader you will lead, inspire and manage a team of world class software engineers.
- Drive complex and large-scale technical projects and provide leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Provide technical expertise throughout the product lifecycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable services.
- Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
- Lead the execution of the product development and ensure on time delivery with highest quality.
- Coach, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers and/or managers.
- Plan and manage multiple parallel projects.
- Partner with business and product teams to build products that delights our customers.
- Experience working with globally distributed team and leading a team of 20+ engineers.
- Ability to attract, recruit & retain best talents
Qualifications – External
What We Are Looking For
- BS/MS in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field with 13+ years of software product development experience.
- Hands on coding experience using Java/Python, SQL.
- 5+ years of building & managing high performance engineering teams.
- Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems.
- Extensive experience in designing and developing API, Restful services & microservices in a cloud environment.
- Experience with data modeling, handling structured and unstructured data and building ETL pipelines
- Experience using big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Hive, databricks, Kafka, etc.
- Experience with JIRA and Agile development practices
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Azure data factory, Azure purview, Airflow, Synapse Analytics and Kubernetes
- Healthcare experience and prior experience with developing applications/big data platform in Azure
