Are you passionate about technology? Obsessed with customer delight? Do you find yourself constantly looking for ways to do better, be better and build better software?  Interested in learning new things?

Here at Optum, we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Enterprise Clinical Integration and Interoperability (ECII) team and work on a technology scrum team that is developing solutions and supporting business leaders who are working to ensure CMS compliance and increase STARS ratings.  You will be part of a team that is providing innovative technical ideas to solve complex healthcare business problems, working with business and technical leaders across multiple lines of businesses to drive and implement solutions using a variety of tools and technologies.

The ideal candidate is team oriented and has a strong innovative spirit with the ability to teach and mentor peers.  This role will work as a key member of the scrum team and will require deep, hands-on technical skills in designing, developing, testing, implementing and supporting.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Design and develop software applications and application components in an agile environment
• Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to other software engineers
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team
• Anticipate issues and act proactively to address potential issues
• Work with sometimes ambiguous / conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to provide functionality with the right amount of engineering

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.