Principal Full Stack Engineer

Requisition Number: 2339217
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the long-term strategy for the platform to improve product quality, reliability, security, scalability, and performance. Own the end-to-end vision of the platform
• Own the product life cycle, define, and monitor metrics that measure the success of the product
• Lead or guide the operations leaders to bring your vision to life
• As a senior-level leader, you will manage and influence stakeholders at all levels (including executive leadership)
• Work in complex business environment consisting of cross functional teams, with product owners and product managers, and various stakeholder across the businesses
• Hiring talent, retain your top talent and mentor them to grow as technical leaders
• Manage span of directly & indirectly reports and responsible for their performance management
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree or Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar major
• 12+ years of hands-on engineering experience with technologies like, Java/JEE, Spring, SQL/No SQL databases, JS frameworks like AngularJS and ReactJS, responsive design, cloud-based services, and hosting (Azure/AWS EC2, etc.)
• 5+ years of managing software development teams
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of >40 in size and track record of successfully delivering features to customers with steadily increasing responsibilities
• Experience in Agile Methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, large Scale distributed services
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done
• Proven solid technical foundation with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new technologies quickly
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines and organizations, including to senior leadership

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.