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 perks, 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:
- Participate in creating solutions for functional and non-functional requirements
- Collaborate with the Scrum team in an agile development environment
- Contribute to continuous improvement of SDLC processes and methodologies
- Develop solutions with scalability and flexibility in mind
- Ensure development delivery meets expectations as defined in a User Story
- Attend and actively participate in all Sprint meetings (Refinement, Planning, Stand-up and Retrospective)
- Accountable to accept and deliver work within each sprint that closely matches planned capacity; escalate to Scrum Master and/or manager if there is an insufficient number of User Stories in the backlog to achieve this
- Quickly identify roadblocks/impediments and escalate to the Tech Lead or Scrum Master
- When engaged by Operations, assist with root cause analysis and resolution of production Incidents
- Application Development
- Build and maintain robust backend services using Python, GitHub (Actions and Workflow) and Ansible
- Understanding of Pydantic for data validation and structured development
- Implement APIs and WebHooks for real-time integrations with external systems
- Cloud Configuration
- Understanding of configuration of Azure and/or Google Cloud (GKE)
- Data & Messaging
- Design and optimize data pipelines leveraging Kafka for event streaming and Redis for caching
- Work with Postgre