Job Description

Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school: make a real difference. We have modest goals: Help millions of people live healthier lives. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. Driven. To these select few, we offer the global reach, resources and can-do culture of a Fortune 6 company. You'll find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by imagination. Start here.

Here's the idea. We built focused businesses, inside UnitedHealth Group, organized around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. Through our two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, we work to improve the health care system and advance the health and well-being of individuals and communities so that they can enjoy better, fuller lives. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges. It's a culture of optimism that's not like any place you've ever worked. Many incredible ideas in one incredible company.

In the Optum State Government Solutions (OSGS) business, we have an exciting opportunity to join the team as an Associate Software Engineer. You will be placed in technical positions with frequent exposure to senior leaders, businesses and technologies. You will have the ability to make meaningful contributions to the company and help people live healthier lives.

This role includes, but is 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.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Perform all phases of software development lifecycle including requirement analysis, design, development and testing (unit testing, automation, deployment, and support)

* Provide support in critical production support issue resolution as needed in DevOps teams

* Support the team for application availability, reliability and stability

* Work with team to achieve timely resolution of all production issues meeting or exceeding Service Level Agreements

* Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed

* Participate in an Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software and Attend Agile ceremonies

* Push for technology solutions that create a better work environment/experience for developers

* Work with the dev team and product management to create next-gen features

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 or related discipline

* A Software programming language familiarity

* Computer algorithms awareness

* Understanding of object-oriented programming concepts

* Some Exposure to RDBMS (preferably MS SQL or Oracle)

* Solid time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

* Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

* Excellent analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities

* Self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment

* Go-getter with a positive attitude

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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.

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