Lead Software Engineer

Optum is a global organisation 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. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start  Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

Todays' RCM is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem — payers, providers, and patients.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic or Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Perform all phases of software engineering including; requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of Java applications on the Azure cloud platform.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, providing technical expertise and fostering a collaborative team environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to define and implement technical solutions.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient Java applications.
• Design and optimize system architecture to ensure high availability, performance, and security.
• Build and maintain Azure resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, JPAC, etc..)
• Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (AKS, Azure Container Apps)
• Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Azure app insights)
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Expertise in managing cost optimized infrastructure setups
• Expertise in setting monitors, triggers, alerts and managing the infra setup on highest availability and reliability standards
• Strong knowledge in Azure networking, such as configuring virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation
• Team player attitude and willingness to collaborate with others

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere : Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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