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.

The Technical

Lead will lead a team comprised of cross functional engineers to build and maintain SCA software systems while also helping drive engineering excellence across all aspects of his/her engineering team. They will provide key technical leadership in the team's ongoing architectural evolution, development, and maintenance of the core SCA enterprise applications. This is an ideal prospect for someone who is passionate about building delightful customer experience products in a highly scalable, reliable, and secure manner, leveraging agile principles and values, test driven development and continuous integration and deployment.

We are looking for a solid business and technical problem solver, with a deep understanding of UI/UX design principles, cloud-native technologies, and scalable enterprise architectures.

Primary Responsibilities The Technical Lead will have a broad set of responsibilities including the following: Partner with the Product Manager to develop and maintain a technically feasible product roadmap, develop solutions for business problems, and meet and/or exceed product roadmap delivery schedules

Work with the Product Manager to scope, design, define, measure, and iteratively deliver innovative experiences to SCA customers

Lead large software projects from ideation to execution

Build complex, responsive, modern, and consistent web applications

Improve team adherence to coding best practices, test coverage, secure coding techniques, product knowledge, architecture design, and technologies





Help coach and mentor young engineers technically to prepare them for the next stage in their career

Play a critical role in the architecture, design, development, and technical decision making of applications in scope

Write well-designed, well-tested, readable, maintainable code

Participate in and lead code review sessions to maintain code quality and distribute knowledge

Ensure application releases occur regularly, timely and with high quality

Build trusting relationships and collaborate within and across all internal teams

Encourage a highly communicative culture that ensures open, transparent, and consistent exchange with key stakeholders

Play active role in continuous improvement of our lean product-oriented development and delivery processes

Champion agile best practices around continuous integration, test-driven development, and continuous deployment

Perform periodic on-call support for after-hours deployment/maintenance windows

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 8+ years of experience in:

Microsoft stack technologies (.NET, .NET CORE, C#, Visual Studio, Entity Framework, SQL Server)

jQuery, JavaScript,



HTML, and CSS

Angular, React

Azure cloud technologies (Functions, Batch, Storage, Key Vault, etc.) or similar

Azure DevOps

DevOps practices

2+ years of proven success as a Technical Leader on a software team leading the building and delivery of software from ideation to delivery to support

Experience with agile best practices and related methodologies (Scrum, Kanban etc.)

Experience with transactional databases and caching systems

Experience with test-driven development (unit and integration testing) and continuous integration

Experience with and understanding of best practices in building public, internal APIs, and integration frameworks

Experience with scalable, distributed systems using microservices and event-driven architecture

Experience with performance tuning production architecture

Solid knowledge and experience building component-based, responsive web applications with modern JavaScript front-end frameworks (Angular, React etc.), HTML, CSS

Understanding of software security best practices

Understanding of design system implementations

Solid technical background in enterprise software development, preferably in HealthCare

Self-led, capable of working with little direction

Skilled communicator with a collaborative spirit

Proven ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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 positive 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.

📌 Senior Software Engineering Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Hyderabad