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Senior Software Engineering Lead @ Optum

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 Senior Software Engineering Lead

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for large and more complex components, while influencing overall Data architecture and patterns
  • Implements component design in line with pre-defined team architectural patterns
  • Creates design documents, for larger component work to gain alignment
  • Delivers designs aligning to appropriate componentized architectures and integration patterns
  • Can work autonomously
  • Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews, and hands-on design sessions
  • Code reviews are appropriately broken down in to reviewable chunks
  • Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
  • Continues to receive guidance in own code reviews primarily around solution refinement, rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
  • Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
  • Solves more complex problems
  • API's / Data Structures/ Data Models/Algorithms/ Application Sequences are thoughtfully designed
  • Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable and performant
  • Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
  • Delivers solutions with the appropriate toolset (languages, algorithms, patterns and frameworks) for the constraints and conditions of the business, team and product
  • Leaves code better than when they found it. #CampsiteRule
  • Choose refactor opportunities to drive drive down tech debt, in alignment with sprint and program goals
  • Incorporates automation in testing, build, and deployment processes to drive team efficiencies
  • Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes demonstrating measurable improvement
  • Works with product management to ensure stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
  • Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on time finish
  • Unblocks the team when they're blocked Limits work in progress by shipping features / deploying product often
  • Decomposes features into manageable stories/tasks
  • Considers the user experience, business impact and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
  • Understands business/financial impact of stability and resiliency
  • Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)

Required Qualifications:

  • Here is the Core Technical Skills
    • Leadership & Delivery
      • Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
      • Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
      • Enterprise application lifecycle ownership
      • Team mentoring, performance management, and delivery accountability
    • Cloud & Infrastructure
      • AWS
      • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
      • Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
    • Frontend Development:
      • React.js
      • Responsive UI design and performance optimization
    • Backend & API Development:
      • React.js, TypeScript
        • Performance tuning
    • Data Engineering & Analytics
      • ETL pipelines, Data Lakes, AWS Glue, Athena
      • SQL, NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
      • Integration with BI tools (Power BI)
  • Generative AI & LLMs
    • Hands-on experience with LLM platforms: OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini)
    • Experience in Vibe Coding & Rapid Prototyping
    • Prompt engineering and optimization for task-specific outcomes (e.g., summarization, Q&A, code generation)
    • Fine-tuning and customizing LLMs using frameworks like Transformers, LangChain
    • Building LLM-powered applications: copilots, chatbots, semantic search
    • Integration with vector databases for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
    • Responsible AI practices: bias detection, explainability, safety guardrails.

Job Classification

Industry: Retail
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Technical Architect
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Optum
Location(s): Noida, Gurugram

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Keyskills:   continuous integration ci/cd sql docker agile kubernetes react.js ui kanban jenkins typescript etl mongodb data lake github dynamo db performance tuning power bi aws cloudformation data engineering nosql aws glue scrum terraform athena

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