Sr Full Stack Engineer - AWS, Python, Spark, Pyspark

Requisition Number: 2337681
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.
Are you passionate about technology? Obsessed with customer delight? Are you a team builder, a team player, a leader extraordinaire? Do you find yourself constantly looking for ways to do better, be better and build better software?
Here at Optum, our Product Engineering team is looking for an exceptional Senior Full Stack Engineer with an insatiable appetite for continuous improvement and innovation. We are looking for a DevOps missionary to take software concepts from paper to production and beyond; to drive relentlessly excellent customer support in production for an always-on suite of products with a global user base. If this sounds like you, our team at Optum in Bengaluru, India is waiting, so read on.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with Business, Technical and Strategic Product Owner to meet project commitments in an agile framework; rapidly delivering value to our customers via technology solutions
• Contribute to the applications' technology stack and drive modern solutions to complex problems
• Participate in design and development of resilient, reliable, scalable and self-healing solutions to meet and exceed customer requirements
• Ensure that all parts of the application eco system are thoroughly and effectively covered with telemetry
• Eliminate "churn" and "waste" via automation of menial tasks
• Collaborate with engineers across partner-teams to build cohesive and optimal solutions
• Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Assist Delivery Manager in interviewing to build a team
• Be in sync with Architect for application Design
• Mentor more junior members of the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible
• 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

What you are like

• Have a great, positive attitude
• A natural leader - someone people are easily convinced to follow and emulate
• Never blocked. You find a way!
• Willing and eager to dive in and figure it out. No system is built from unicorn horn dust. It's just code
• You take extreme ownership and pride in your work
• Care deeply about team culture and actively influence a positive culture
  Will automate something so you don't have to do it twice
  You build everything 'as code': Infrastructure, pipeline, testing, monitoring, etc.
  Never stop learning

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms as a Data Engineer
• 6+ years of production experience with AWS cloud technologies, Python, Spark/Pyspark.
• 3+ years of solid experience designing and building Enterprise Data solutions on cloud leveraging Spark, Github Actions & Terraforms
• 2+ years writing unit or integration tests
• Experience working with teams that leveraged three or more of the following: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, web applications, web services, application observability and/or messaging/ stream architecture
• IT full-stack engineering experience
• Knowledge of AI/ML for team productivity or Business effectiveness like copilot etc.
• Deep understanding of software engineering and processes: design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile and dev-ops, as well as industry patterns for application architecture and integration
• Skilled at optimizing SQL statements
• Subject matter expert on Cloud technologies preferably AWS and Big Data ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with technologies such as: HTML/Javascript, Playwright, NodeJS, Git, SOA, .NET, C#, React
• Development experience in Docker, Cloud, Kubernetes, Data Streaming via Kafka/Event Hub
• Knowledge of instrumenting apps with Azure AppInsights, and creating effective alarms and dashboards
• Knowledge of SRE principles (error budgets, alarming practices, etc.)
• Healthcare domain background

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.