Job Description

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:


• Be part of solid engineering team and enhance product features
• Develops pioneering approaches to emerging technology and industry trends
• Define, use and communicate design patterns and best practices
• Present and evaluate design solutions objectively
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production readiness for new releases, provide inputs for Go/No Go decision and customer issue resolution
• Closely working Business Teams, Onshore partners, deployment and infrastructure teams
• Understand implications of data upstream and downstream
• Demonstrate a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction
• Be able to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and present recommendations
• Be able to maintain a positive attitude while working with high demands and short deadlines
• 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:


• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted in GCP and on-prem K8 platform
• Experience with Kafka clusters, Kubernetes, Terraform or Helm Charts
• Experience with Linux (RHEL) /Unix
• Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.
• Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster
• Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins
• Experience in open source and confluence Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center
• A solid understanding of Java programming language, Spring Framework, Spring Boot
• Understanding and implementing RESTful APIs
• Proficiency in working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Thorough understanding of Kafka, producer/consumer/topic technologies and drive implementation of the technology
• Proven ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable
• Proven excellent communications and interpersonal skills


Preferred Qualifications:


• Experience with any RDBMS, No-SQL technologies, and GCP/Azure Cloud
• Understanding of or experience with Programming languages like Python, etc.


•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.•