About the Role
At Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest.
Our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future. Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone.
Job Description
We use advanced development tools, AI, data science, and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Today's Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency.
Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the RCM workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem — payers, providers, and patients.
Key Responsibilities
* Coach your direct reports, actively assist them in developing a fulfilling career whilst providing impactful value through technology to the members we serve in the healthcare system.
* Support your team's architectural and technical decision-making
* Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and senior leadership to turn vision into a roadmap
* Maintain a solid culture of engineering excellence with the user experience at the centre, focusing on CI/CD, DevOps, TDD, SRE, Security monitoring, etc.
* Maintain open, inclusive, and unbiased communication and decision-making practices
* Drive engineering quality and maintain impeccable SLAs
* Define, plan, and drive improvements in the design, coding practices, and technology
* Hire astounding engineers
Requirements
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and training
* Strong desire to learn about new trends and technologies
* Demonstrated solid communication and interpersonal skills
* Hands-on experience working in Azure cloud platforms or other cloud platforms
* Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
* Ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required
* Experience in managing through goals and metrics
* Experience in a similar role mentoring software engineering professionals
* Experience delivering software using an Agile/Scrum methodology
* Experience in CI/CD environments with Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub, and Containerization
* Full stack knowledge, from deployment ops and database technologies through to front-end frameworks preferably in Java or Python
Preferred Qualifications
* Senior level software development background in object-oriented design and implementation including design patterns, data structures, and test-driven development
* Strong experience in automating build processes, application deployments, and continuous integration systems
* Working knowledge of APIs
* Experience with SQL, relational, and graph databases
* Experience with messaging systems
* Experience in the health care industry
Career Development Opportunities
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
About Us
At United Health 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.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Optum is a drug-free workplace.