Software Engineering Lead

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.

The health solutions marketplace is hungry for new ideas, innovative products and software that drives elevated performance for the business and the customer. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is feeding incredible solutions to that marketplace every day by bringing out the best in our software engineering teams. We serve customers across the health system. Not only do we have more of them every day, we also have more technology, greater data resources and far broader expertise than any competitor anywhere. We're out to change the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. If you're in, you'll be challenged like never before.

This role is equally challenging and rewarding. You'll need to stay positive at all times especially in difficult situations. You'll be asked to mentor, challenge, and communicate effectively with all different types of people.

As a Software Engineer for Integrations, you will be a critical contributor within a team of highly skilled software engineers and analysts focused on integrating data into and out of our Human Capital software applications. Working together with this team, our customers, and our partners, you will implement integration solutions to meet critical business objectives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain integration using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• Build and optimize BI Publisher (BIP) and OTBI reports for HR analytics and compliance
• Develop and manage PL/SQL scripts for data manipulation and backend logic
• Create and consume SOAP/REST APIs to enable seamless data exchange across enterprise systems
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Support functional and technical testing
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Drives a quality culture by example, encouraging quality practices in others
• Drives code reuse; minimizes redundant development by use of pattern-based approach
• Work within an agile development/delivery framework
• Coordinate improvement of agile development metrics including Time to Build (TTB) and Time to Value (TTV)
• Approach the role with a learning mindset with drive to learn new technologies and programming languages
• Leverage AI capabilities within Oracle HCM Cloud to build a high-quality integration framework, enabling intelligent automation, enhanced data flow, and predictive insights across HR systems
• 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
  
  

EligibiliRequired Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 2025 Certified Application Integration Professional certification
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle HCM development using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
• 5+ years of PL/SQL development experience
• 5+ years of experience developing reports using BI Publisher (BIP) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI)
• 3+ years of experience delivering solutions within an Agile development framework
• Proven solid communication and collaboration skills.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Proven problem-solving and analytical thinking
  
  

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.