Senior Software Engineering Lead
UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group
Join Optum, a global leader dedicated to improving health outcomes through innovative technology. Our team collaborates to connect individuals with essential care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources, fostering healthier lives. We cultivate an inclusive environment with talented colleagues, comprehensive benefits, and ample career development pathways. Contribute to advancing health optimization on a global scale and be part of an organization that's Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Deliver hands-on AI-first engineering within an agile team to build, operate, and scale a production AI platform and intelligent automation capabilities. Drive continuous AI innovation to enhance platform resilience, security, and enterprise-scale performance. Design and implement reusable services, tools, and automation to improve engineering productivity and enable new high-value use cases. Advance team maturity in agile, DevOps, and AI engineering practices to accelerate delivery speed, quality, and business impact. Lead by example in applying AI-enabled DevOps, rapidly delivering high-value solutions while shaping future platform capabilities and engineering standards.
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is required. Possess 4+ years of practical experience in software development using programming or scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C/C++, Rust, or Go. Proficiency with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Nomad is essential. Demonstrated experience providing value through collaboration with customers and technical resources on other teams. Experience designing and building technical solutions to solve business problems within an Agile framework. Familiarity with modern cloud-enabled software stacks and techniques, specifically Azure or AWS. Experience with AI workflows, LLMs, and RAG pipelines, including tools like Claude, Codex, Copilot, and AIDLC, is crucial.
UnitedHealth
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