Leads architecture and development of enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Establishes engineering standards, drives cloud modernization, DevOps, SRE, security, resiliency, and operational excellence initiatives. Conducts architecture and design reviews, provides technical governance, partners with cross-functional teams, mentors senior engineers, and advances automation, performance, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities.
Requisition Number: 2395695
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:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Agentic AI Frameworks
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.
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 drive architecture for enterprise-scale applications and platforms
- Design scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native solutions
- Lead development of APIs, backend services, and distributed systems
- Establish engineering standards, architecture patterns, and best practices
- Drive cloud modernization and platform engineering initiatives
- Lead DevOps, SRE, and operational excellence efforts.
- Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical governance
- Partner with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Architecture teams
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads
- Drive innovation, automation, performance optimization, and engineering excellence
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
Required Qualifications:
- Graduate - B. Tech and/or MS in computer science or equivalent
- 9+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years leading large-scale technical initiatives
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale distributed systems
- Experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Solid understanding of security, resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence
- Proven solid hands-on Python expertise
- Proven solid cloud architecture experience (GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Proven kubernetes and container platform expertise
- Proven excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud Architect Certifications
- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD)
- TOGAF or Architecture Certifications
- Healthcare or regulated industry experience
- Experience or familiarity with any of the following
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI-powered applications
- AI-assisted software development
- Proven enterprise platform engineering background
- Proven AI / GenAI Exposure
Agentic AI Frameworks
- Awareness or hands-on exposure to:
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Google ADK
- Semantic Kernel
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Amazon Bedrock Agents
- CrewAI
- AutoGen
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.
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