UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Cobol Software Engineer Job at Letterkenny , Ireland Full Time

Cobol Software Engineer

Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernising the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

About the role:

As a Cobol Software Engineer in our Medicare & Retirement Technology team, you will take ownership of enterprise technical solutions that process our medical claims adjudication in a flexible, growth-oriented environment, whilst driving modernisation and business capability advancement.

Our software platform is growing, and we are looking for a Software Engineer that will be responsible involved in developing and automating business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze, develop, test and deploy new and/or enhance existing application or system code within established processes
• Enhance application system performance
• Create technical documentation and test plans
• Provide day to day application monitoring, reporting, and maintenance of software solutions
• Analyze user requests to diagnose and resolve issues / queries associated with software solutions and infrastructure
• Work independently within operationally defined SLAs
• Build, maintain and strengthen relationship with stakeholders/business partners and keep them informed with appropriate business impact assessments
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Lead and mentor junior team members
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively within a global project environment
• Predict emerging customer needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them
• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business
• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and / or approaches
• Review of requirements and/or analysis documentation for completeness
• Responsible for ensuring delivery of technical artifacts

Required Qualifications:

• Third Level IT Degree or equivalent
• Extensive experience of Mainframe or VAX/VMS or AS400 technologies and architecture
• Extensive experience of Developing and Supporting Mainframe Applications using COBOL, DCL or JCL
• Extensive hands on DB2 RDBMS or RDB or equivalent and SQL Query knowledge
• Extensive development experience in solution design, coding, debugging, deployment and post deployment support
• Extensive hands on experience in leading large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Very good communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Must be flexible to work in shifts patterns / on call as per project requirements and on weekends.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous production support experience
• Excellent understanding of Agile/DevOps methodology
• Experience using programming languages such as Java
• DataStage, SSIS, Web Services knowledge
• Healthcare industry domain knowledge

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

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Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organisation around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Keywords: Letterkenny, COBOL, VAX/VMS