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 advantages, 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.

Required Qualifications

Must Have

• Graduate - B. Tech and/or MS in computer science or equivalent
• 9 to 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale technical initiatives.
• Solid hands-on Python expertise.
• Experience architecting enterprise-scale distributed systems.
• Strong cloud architecture experience (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Kubernetes and container platform expertise.
• Experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of security, resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Positive to Have

• AI / GenAI Exposure
• Experience or familiarity wi

📌 Senior Software Engineering Lead Hyderabad
🏢 Optum India
📍 Hyderabad