Experience: 10+ years

Location: PAN India

Notice Period: Immediate to 30Days

Job Description

As a Lead Architect, you will be responsible for the overall solution design and architecture of applications in Optum, with a focus on improving the provider experience and transforming it to a modernized platform. You will play a crucial role in major application redesign initiatives, driving solution design, development, performance tuning, acceptance testing, and implementation. This is an opportunity to be a hands-on agent of change and contribute to the transformation of Optum's applications.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the architecture and design of an application, providing hands-on technical leadership
• Demonstrate an advanced level of understanding and application of general systems concepts and their integration with business problem resolution
• Ensure solutions align with business and IT goals/objectives
• Identify enhancements to improve supportability, operability, or performance of applications within the application group and develop a business case for suggested enhancements
• Collaborate with business partners/product owners to understand desired system functionality
• Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
• Participate in design activities, monitor task completion, and ensure project progress
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion to prioritize, plan, and manage team activities
• Review code and provide feedback on best practices and performance improvements
• Provide guidance to team members to enhance productivity
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Set attainable goals for team members and guide them to success
• Deliver all project deliverables on scope, on time, and on budget.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience within a Java environment
• 1+ years of production experience with cloud technologies
• In-depth knowledge of systems development life cycle and/or operational maintenance environment
• Strong organization and effective communication skills
• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and provide solutions as required
• Experience delivering software using an Agile methodology
  
  

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing project cost and benefit estimates, including identification and evaluation of alternatives
• Provide training and assistance on a full range of technical issues to the broader team
• Experience with prototyping and performance tuning applications across multiple operating systems, languages, and computing platforms
• Understanding of distributed architecture design principles
• Experience working in the healthcare industry
• Experience with business rule engines
• Experience with the following technologies:
• Streaming technology (e.g., Kafka)
• Cloud platforms (e.g., OpenShift)
• Databases (e.g., NoSQL, GraphDB)
• Microservices architecture
• Web development frameworks (e.g., React, Angular)