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

• 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/Azur

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