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The statements listed below are not intended to be all inclusive of the duties and responsibilities of the position. Based on leadership decisions and business needs, “all other duties as assigned” will be expected for each position.

Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.

To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the Business Systems Analyst/Product Analyst will play a key role: working within our legacy application as we update it to a cloud-native platform which follows modern design standards.

This position will support Optum Serve’s performance of a United States (U.S.) Government contract and will require the successful applicant to access and/or process Non Critical Sensitive information (Personally Identifiable Information [PII]/Protected Health Information [PHI]) from or contained in a U.S. Government IT system.

To fulfill the data and IT system access requirements for this position, the successful applicant will be required to successfully complete a Trustworthy Determination, which will require the successful applicant to: 1) be a U.S. citizen 2) pass a National Agency Check with law enforcement in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position and 3) pass a Credit Check in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components that meet all technical specifications and business requirements per assigned work items

• E2E ownership from intake and refinement to deployment of production applications as well as monitoring and support

• Collaborates closely with Product Analysts on developing requirements

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field or 2+ years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree

• 5+ years of experience with Cognizant Facets

• 5+ years of experience with SQL

• United States Citizenship

• If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with an object-oriented programming language

• Experience with EDI 837D format standard

• Experience with Restful API development

• Experience with .NET Core or similar object-oriented programming language

• Experience with Angular, Single SPA, or other TypeScript frameworks / libraries and micro frontends

• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) and application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments

• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Flux, and other infrastructure as code supporting technologies

• Experience with CI/CD and test automation (Playwright, Cucumber, JMeter)

• Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider including Azure cloud constructs like Blobs, Service Bus, Vault, Entra ID, Functions etc.

• Experience with ETL and data formats e.g. JSON, XML

• Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Less framework

• Proven basic understanding of HIPAA, PHI, PII

• Proven basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot applications running within Kubernetes

• Proven basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and automated provisioning & configuration management

• Proven basic understanding of networking and internet protocols

• Proven basic understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability tools e.g. Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, App Insights

• Proven basic understanding of ServiceNow incident management intake flow

• Proven knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP

• Proven knowledge of Domain Driven Design methodology Conditions

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.