Leads the design, development, testing, and deployment of cloud-native AI applications, intelligent automation, AI agents, LLM, GenAI, and RAG solutions. Translates business requirements into secure, scalable enterprise systems while establishing automation frameworks, validation engines, monitoring, documentation, testing, and governance standards. Requires extensive software engineering, cloud development, AI delivery, .NET, Python, SQL, cloud platform, agentic framework, and vector search experience.
Requisition Number: 2389220
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
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.
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and develop AI-driven, cloud-native applications, intelligent automation workflows, and AI agents using Python, Database (SQL and /or Postgrace or Mongo / oracle), Cloud (Azure and/or GCP or AWS), Frontend (.Net and /or react / Angular)
- Build, integrate, test, and deploy GenAI, Agentic AI, LLM, and RAG-based solutions for enterprise use cases
- Create and maintain automation frameworks, validation engines, data extraction capabilities, and autonomous remediation workflows to reduce manual effort and improve operational accuracy
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product owners, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready technical solutions
- Ensure code quality, CI/CD readiness, testing coverage, documentation, monitoring, and compliance with enterprise engineering, AI governance, and delivery standards
- 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
- 10+ years of overall professional experience in software engineering, cloud application development, automation, or AI solution delivery
- 5+ years of hands-on experience across .NET, Python, SQL, application development, and enterprise solution implementation
- 4+ years of hands-on experience delivering AI, Agentic AI, LLM-based, GenAI, or RAG-based projects in a production or enterprise environment
- Solid experience with Azure and/or GCP cloud platforms, including cloud-native design, deployment, integration, and operational support
- Experience with AI productivity and engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Codex, Claude, and Visual Studio Code-based AI-assisted development
- Hands-on knowledge of LLM-based frameworks, Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain or CrewAI, and exposure to MCP-based patterns
- Good understanding of RAG patterns, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, Azure AI Search, Chroma
- DB, MongoDB, cognitive services, NLP, and knowledge retrieval capabilities
- Solid engineering fundamentals including APIs, microservices, scalable system design, testing, debugging, documentation, and secure development practices
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.
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New Delhi, India, India
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