Job Description

UnitedHealthcare is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing 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.

Primary Responsibilities:
* Develops innovative solutions and approaches
* Be sought out as expert
* Analyzes and investigates
* Tests and plans
* Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
* Communicates with management and customers
* Uses pertinent data and facts to identify and solve a range of problems within area of expertise
* Investigates non-standard requests and problems
* Prioritizes and organizes own work to meet deadlines
* Provides explanations and information to others on topics within area of expertise
* Serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues
* Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions
* Performs complex conceptual analyses
* Forecasts and plans resource requirements
* May lead functional or segment teams or projects
* Provides explanations and information to others on the most complex issues

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 or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of experience with C and visual studio
* 5+ years of web development experience
* 5+ years database development experience
* HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OAuth, SAML, jQuery, SOAP, REST, Web Services, XML, XSL, EAI experience
* T-SQL and objects experience using different database platforms (Sybase, SQL, Oracle)
* If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders

Competencies:
* Gathers / reviews business requirements
* Demonstrates understanding of applicable business processes and how they add value to the business
* Demonstrates understanding of application architecture and how business logic integrates with it
* Adheres to applicable enterprise development methodologies and processes
* Ensures that business requirements are clearly and comprehensively documented and understood, and properly implemented (including integration with IT and business partners)
* Reviews and fully understands application / system designs
* Develops technical specifications / design documents
* Ensures compliance with application code standards
* Ensures scaling capability
* Works with database teams to evaluate and establish applicable database technical requirements
* Optimizes user experience / interface design
* Ensures that technical specifications / design documents optimize application/systems performance
* Develops application / system code as defined in technical specifications
* Creates unit test plans, executes unit testing and documents results to ensure that code works as designed
* Ensures that application / system code is clearly and comprehensively developed and traceable back to technical specifications
* Ensures integration with testing groups (e.g., UAT, CTP)
* Reviews and troubleshoots potential coding issues
* Validates technical compliance application / system designs

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. We all want to make a difference with the work we do. Sometimes we're presented with an opportunity to make a difference on a scale we couldn't imagine. Here, you get that opportunity every day. As a member of one of our elite teams, you'll provide the ideas and solutions that help nearly 25 million customers live healthier lives. You'll help write the next chapter in the history of health care. And you'll find a wealth of open doors and career paths that will take you as far as you want to go. Go further. This is 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.

Job Keywords: Software Engineer, Software Engineering, C, Visual Studio, Web Development, Web Developer, Database Development, Database Developer, DB Developer, DB, Database, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, OAuth, SAML, jQuery, SOAP, REST, Web Services, XML, XSL, EAI, T-SQL, Sybase, SQL, Oracle, Las Vegas, NV, Nevada