Senior Software Engineering Lead - Facets

Optum India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum India, part of UnitedHealth Group, seeks an experienced IT leader to drive SDLC programs in the US healthcare domain. The role emphasizes Medicaid/Medicare knowledge, coding standards, governance, and collaboration across engineering teams to deliver robust health‑care solutions.

You will translate business requirements into technical designs, lead small teams of developers and QA, design and develop UI with Angular and backend APIs with C#, and contribute to DevOps/CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years in engineering manager/architect/PO roles on SDLC.
• Good understanding of Medicaid / Medicare line of business.
• Familiar with Github tools.
• Good understanding of Health plan setup.
• Good knowledge on US Healthcare Industry.
• End-to-end claims lifecycle understanding.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, and SharePoint.
• SQL querying capability.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to adopt new technologies.

Skills

Claims lifecycle

Healthcare domain knowledge

SQL queries

Communication skills

SDLC experience

Adapt to new tech

Education

Graduate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub

MS Office

Visio

MS Project

SharePoint

Job description

Job Description:

• Be able to understand the Facets Delivery, Client priority and requirements
• Applies knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems
• Be able to translate the business requirements/functional design to job design
• Be able to design, develop solutions for inbound and outbound file functionalities using PL/SQL/Oracle/PERL
• Be able to work on EDI transactions such as837 and 835.
• Be able to contribute to DevOps, CI/CD and other engineering forums
• Be able to design and develop UI solutions using Angular
• Be able to design and develop back-end APIs using C#
• Be able to lead small teams of developers and QA
• Collaborate with QA/UAT team members
• Participate in Test Case reviews, and Production Support for incidents
• Develops innovative approaches on performance optimization & automation
• Provide timely updates on tasks to reporting supervisor
• Adherence to the defined SLA Compliance etc.
• Develop and maintain standards, common processes and best practices as per Industry standards
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• 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

Required Qualifications

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of overall IT experience
• 5+ years of Engineering Manager / Technical Manager / Solution Architect / PO background Experience on SDLC Methodologies
• Good understanding of Medicaid / Medicare line of business
• Familiar with Github tools
• Good understanding of Health plan set up
• Good knowledge on US Healthcare Industry
• Proven good end to end claim, Provider, Membership, Finance lifecycle understanding
• Proven skilled with MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, and SharePoint required
• Proven comfortable in executing basic SQL queries
• Proven good communications skills
• Proven good in adapting and adopting new technology footprints to optimize business solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• TriZetto Facets Application experience
• Knowledge of Kafka-streaming
• Good understanding about the structure and significance of key /HIPAA X12 EDI transactions like 837, 277CA, 835, etc.
• Understanding of Service Now & Production support processes

Domain Specific Requirements

• Claims:
• Good understanding of Claims domain in Facets which includes Data Model, Core Claims processing batch jobs, Facets UI, Facets Workflow tool
• Knowledge of NetworX pricer
• Good understanding around Claims pricing, errors, edits, adjustments & payments

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.