Principal Software Engineer

Caring. Connecting. Growing Together.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership for the Integration capability team of software engineers and analysts
• Clears roadblocks for the integrations team
• Collaborate with other leads on Data Externalization team, ensuring that the right types of tools (reports, interfaces, co-existence) are used to fulfill externalization requirements
• Develops a robust understanding of business, market, and customer needs and can leverage that knowledge to propose and drive new or improved solutions to business partners
• Drives the application of modern software engineering practices to improve team delivery and solution outcomes
• Applies broad knowledge of domain to optimize choices in architecture and design
• Leads team in identifying and implementing modern software components, tools and technologies
• Drives code reuse and contribution strategy for span of control; minimizes redundant development by use of pattern-based approaches
• Uses broad understanding of human capital technology tools both from a technical and functional perspective to partner with functional teams to deliver capabilities/solutions
• Establishes partnerships across business and technology stakeholders to ensure the right problems are solved in the right way to meet customer needs.
• Owns the improvement of user and customer metrics within span of control.
• Has familiarity with many technologies and shares this with others
• Influences leadership and peers by sharing experience, learnings, and ideas
• Effectively communicates with business stakeholders and technical team
• Ability to understand and suggest opportunities of various technologies in the context of experience
• Work within an agile development/delivery framework
• Coordinate improvement of agile development metrics including Time to Build (TTB) and Time to Value (TTV)
• Proactively identify and drive the integration of AI to solve problems and unlock new opportunities for the team to build AI, aligning AI initiatives with broader business goals
• Understands the nuances of AI project execution, and focuses on delivering tangible, responsible AI-driven value
• 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 regard 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:

• Undergraduate degree or higher
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 10+ years of integration/interface implementation experience
• 10+ years of Oracle HCM enterprise application implementation experience
• 10+ years of hands-on SQL development experience
• 5+ years of delivering products and value within an Agile-development framework
• Experience with data integration technologies and tools such as HDL, HCM Extracts, and BICC
• Extensive knowledge in developing and consuming APIs (SOAP, REST)
• Solid expertise in Oracle HCM Cloud modules and architecture
• Proficient in developing and consuming APIs (SOAP, REST)
• Solid understanding of data modeling, performance tuning, and debugging

Soft Skills:

• Solid communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (HR, IT, Finance)
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking