Optum · 20 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - 2341742
Optum is part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, focused on making health care work better for everyone. The Senior Software Engineer will research, design, and develop specialized software applications to enhance user efficiency and ensure compliance with strict internal policies and regulations.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs
Design, develop, and modify highly specialized computer applications to drive Optum user efficiency and overall business success; ensure these applications meet Optum's demanding standards for privacy and security as required by strict internal policies and industry-specific regulations; create efficient, high performance enhancements to these proprietary Optum applications, enhancements that address and achieve specific Optum customer goals; quickly and effectively design, develop, and implement new technology features that build on existing functionality, including but not limited to integrating with new technology; ensure compliance with Optum's software development life cycle protocols and ensure project priorities are recorded and satisfied according to those protocols, raising any risk factors to the appropriate Optum project management team; constantly improve functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Optum applications; adhere to Optum version control, release management, and deployment protocols to distribute new functionality to the user base; satisfy Optum data accessibility standards by ensuring all Optum electronic information and technology is fully usable by people with disabilities; facilitate all Optum quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing, by quickly resolving issues and providing all required metrics and data, including issue tracking; design and develop reporting as needed to summarize and analyze Optum application functionality; ensure these proprietary applications satisfy Optum's rigorous internally-defined technical requirements for performance, resiliency, availability and scalability; collaborate with Optum solutions users to build, extend, and enhance applications that accelerate efficiency and innovation across the organization; and provide post deployment support and to quickly respond to and resolve unexpected service problems in production
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in an engineering-related occupation
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow Customer Service Management (CSM) module
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow Automated Test Framework (ATF)
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow Workflows
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) module
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow Management, Instrumentation and Discovery (MID) Server
one (1) year of experience in Java Script, CSS, and HTML
one (1) year of experience in Problem Solving
one (1) year of experience in SQL and ServiceNow database (CMDB)
one (1) year of experience in ServiceNow REST API Integration
one (1) year of experience in Apache Kafka data streaming ETL tool
one (1) year of experience in Jenkins CICD tool for deployment and performance monitoring
one (1) year of experience in Agile methodology
one (1) year of experience in Rally tool
one (1) year of experience in Splunk tool to monitor transaction logs and alerts
Benefits
Medical
Dental and vision
Matching 401k
An employee stock purchase plan
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
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