Principal Software Engineer

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.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and architectural leadership for Care Extension capabilities as part of Value Connect Platform
• Define and drive the application strategy and execution roadmap, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned to long-term platform evolution
• Lead the design and implementation of Care Management and Medication Management solutions, including workflows across core platform services and client-facing modules
• Own end-to-end development lifecycle management, including design, deployment, optimization, monitoring, and operational readiness in production environments
• Translate complex business problems into enterprise-grade architectures that deliver measurable outcomes such as faster time-to-value, automation, and decision intelligence
• Partner with product, engineering, and architecture leaders to ensure tight alignment between platform capabilities, release milestones, and customer commitments
• Establish and enforce standards for Responsible AI, model governance, and platform consistency across teams
• Act as a technical mentor and force multiplier, raising team engineering maturity through design reviews, best practices, and hands-on guidance
• Reviews the work of others
• Develops innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
• Serves as a leader/ mentor
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise solution architecture for large-scale, multi-product Application & platforms
• Solid hands-on background with Java, Spark, Azure, React, and Postgre in complex, distributed systems
• Experience building platforms that support multiple use cases, teams, and release trains without sacrificing reliability or velocity
• Deep expertise in technical Design and Architecture, with a track record of operationalizing these capabilities in production environments
• Solid understanding of Responsible AI principles, enterprise governance, and risk management in regulated environments
• Proven ability to design and operate high-performance data pipelines, including large-scale deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management
• Proven ability to influence across teams and levels, balancing technical depth, strategic thinking, and delivery accountability

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.