Python Job: Lead Software Engineer- Dublin ( Hybrid)

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

About the Role:

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. Join us and do your life's best work.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. You will be working as a Full Stack Software Engineer working across the organization’s top initiatives in Virtual Care Technology.

This role is based within Optum Insight as part of Data Science Services. Optum is the technology and services division of UnitedHealth Group, the leading international health insurer. The roles of the Software Engineering team within Data Science Services 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.

Our Lead Software Engineers in this function 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.

Join us! There's never been a better time to do your life's best work℠

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

Primary Responsibilities of the Lead Software Engineer

• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data and Analytic solutions.
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  Collaborates and communicates with IT cross-functional teams.
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  Implement best practices and coding standards of the project.
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  Performing all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, and code development & testing.
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  Designing and implementing product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
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  Research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks and patterns to build a sustainable Analytic platform.
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  Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification.
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  Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases.
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  Collaborate with the scrum team to meet project timelines.
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  Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance.
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  Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required.
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  Implement Spring boot microservices which acts as a Kafka Consumer and read the data from Kafka Topics which exists on Azure Cloud.
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  Implement Spring boot microservices to interact with Snowflake DWH Schema which exists on Azure Cloud.

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 of the Lead Software Engineer:

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  Extensive hands-on Software Development experience.
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  Development experience with Python and/or Java.
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  Experience in developing applications on at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred)

Preferred Qualifications of Lead Software Engineer:

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  Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, NoSQL Databases and Azure Native Services.
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  Proficient with front-end languages including HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
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  Experience of working with DevOps technologies.

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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 marginalized 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: 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.