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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start **Caring. Connecting. Growing together** **Primary Responsibilities:** + Support research and analysis on current and anticipated needs of API Product customers + Consider customer experience in all aspects of decisions and actions + Act as the liaison between Business Systems Analysts, Technical Architects, Software and Quality Engineers and project management groups within UnitedHealth Group + Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them + Serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues + Develops innovative approaches + Monitor product metrics and propose solutions to improve efficiencies + Develop and document detailed source-to-target data mapping and data transformation rules + Ensures non-functional requirements are considered as part of the solution (reliability, availability, security, usability) + Develop detailed Product (API) design documentation including API message schemas , Processing Logic, Process Flows, Aggregation, Routing, Transformation and Error Handling logic + Present and evaluate Product (API) Design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution + Support the development of virtualized APIs by creating sample API request/response messages + Support the API Development , Operations and Support teams in the development and ongoing maintenance of APIs. + Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions + Plan and Deliver frequent increments and value every couple of weeks + Reviews work performed by others and provide effective guidance + Executes on the product roadmap + Understands, Communicates, Authorizes deviations from standards + Partner with implementation teams and reflect on their approach on a regular basis and adjust accordingly + 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:** + Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience + Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science + 2+ years of experience in a senior-level Applications Developer and/or architecture role + 1+ years of solution/application architecture & design experience involving heterogeneous enterprise scale systems & software + Experience in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, Design Patterns, Data Ingestion + Experience in Agile methodologies, grooming Features and Stories, able to work with Product Owners, Developers, and Enterprise architects and drive architecture solutions across the team + Experience with Graph QL, Java 11, Springboot + Experience with canonical data models designed to support reusable event-based processing + Experience with designing and implementing RESTful Web Services with Microservices design principle using Spring Boot or a similar framework + Healthcare Industry experience + Healthcare EDI Experience + Expertise in developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure + Knowledge of industry standard patterns, practices, best practices in using technologies including Microservices and containers, Cloud, message streaming, REST and web services APIs + Good understanding of public cloud environments (AWS or Azure) + Good understanding of No SQL data stores (e.g. Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MongoDB etc.), table definitions/index, Avro, JSON, Kafka Streaming, event driven architecture, microservice architecture + Understanding of RDBMS concepts, entity modeling and SQL query (MySQL and/or MS Sql Server) + A focus on architecting near real-time business event-driven solutions using publish-subscribe patterns and data streaming technologies + Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills + Ability to display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction _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._