Senior Software Engineer Lead

As a Technology professional at Optum, you will be part of a global organization that focuses on delivering care through technology to improve the lives of millions of individuals. You will have the opportunity to work with a team that is dedicated to enhancing health outcomes by providing individuals with access to necessary care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources to support their well-being. Optum offers a culture that values inclusion, provides career development opportunities, and offers comprehensive benefits. In this role, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Designing, developing, and modifying specialized computer applications to enhance user efficiency and drive overall business success. - Ensuring that applications meet stringent standards for privacy and security as mandated by internal policies and industry regulations. - Creating high-performance enhancements to applications that address specific customer goals efficiently. - Designing, developing, and implementing new technology features that expand on existing functionality, including integration with recent technology. - Ensuring compliance with software development life cycle protocols, recording project priorities, and addressing any risk factors to the project management team. - Continuously improving application functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency. - Adhering to version control, release management, and deployment protocols for distributing recent functionality to users. - Ensuring data accessibility standards are met by making electronic information and technology fully usable by individuals with disabilities. - Facilitating quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing, by promptly resolving issues and providing necessary metrics and data. - Designing and developing reporting to summarize and analyze application functionality. - Ensuring that proprietary applications meet internally defined technical requirements for performance, resiliency, availability, and scalability. - Collaborating with solution users to build, extend, and enhance applications that drive efficiency and innovation across the organization. - Providing post-deployment support and promptly addressing unexpected service issues in production. - Complying with employment contract terms, company policies, procedures, and directives related to work location, team changes, flexibility, and other business environment adjustments. The required qualifications for this role include: