UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
UnitedHealth Group is working to create the health care system of tomorrow.
Already Fortune 25, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.
Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.
Find out more by exploring this newly created position in our Golden Valley, MN Facility.
Manager, Application Development
- Lead application development team to build and maintain services based software applications for the health care industry.
- Team is responsible for designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications and services consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value.
- Responsible for coordinating and supervising the daily activities of technical development team, and accountable for the application solution architecture and ensuring SDLC and environment configuration management processes are utilized.
- Work with the customer and end users to define application and technical requirements.
- Define the application, data and technical architecture structure, ensuring it meets the business requirements and performance goals and the technical direction is consistent with the client's long-term direction.
- Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, performance, quality, and operations requirements.
- Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements for the development, execution, and operations environments.
- Make decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software and security.
- Lead the application, data and technical architecture analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that the product fulfills the requirements.
- Work with the support unit to determine how the application is supported in production, including backups, disaster recovery, system performance, and project management.
- Review application, data and technical architecture deliverables throughout development to ensure quality and requirement traceability.
- Identify and communicate any cross area or cross release issues that affect other project areas.
- Ensure adherence to all quality management plans and standards by participating in quality management reviews.
- Coordinate and interact with appropriate teams on defects, changes, issues and enhancements that may impact development, data, workflow and/or functionality.
- Validate the design with the stakeholders to ensure that the design satisfies the requirements.
- Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion.
Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.
- 8 + years professional experience in software development projects
- 5 + years of experience developing with Java / J2EE and/ or .NET technologies
- Technical understanding of data structures as they relate to User Interface applications
- Ability to evaluate and propose technical alternatives to the project team and client for resolving business and technology issues
- Ability to provide technical leadership to project resources and the client to meet project deadlines and ensure that project objectives are met
- Ability to review ongoing and proposed projects to identify opportunities for reuse and process improvement
- Ability to review project deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards
- Ability to consult with and develop technical resources for methods, procedures, and standards to use during design, development, and unit testing phases of the project
- Ability to document and communicate the status of progress against plans, taking corrective action as necessary
- Ability to identify, clarify, and resolve system development and maintenance activity issues and risks, escalating them as needed
- Ability to review technical documentation to verify compliance with client requirements and established architectural standards and guidelines
- Project management experience
- Proficient problem solving and fact finding skills
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- PC proficiency with MS Windows and MS Office applications
- Health Care industry experience preferred
- Preferred technical skills include: object oriented concepts, service oriented architecture (SOA), internet, client server, object-oriented and multi-tier implementations and business intelligence / data warehouse technologies
- Relevant Bachelors Degree such as Computer Science, Math, Economics, Engineering, Actuarial Science and/or Statistics, or equivalent experience
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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