Design, develop, and modify highly specialized computer applications to drive Optum user efficiency and overall business success; ensure these applications meet Optum's demanding standards for privacy and security as required by strict internal policies and industry-specific regulations; create efficient, high performance enhancements to these proprietary Optum applications, enhancements that address and achieve specific Optum customer goals; quickly and effectively design, develop, and implement new technology features that build on existing functionality, including but not limited to integrating with new technology; ensure compliance with Optum ' s software development life cycle protocols and ensure project priorities are recorded and satisfied according to those protocols, raising any risk factors to the appropriate project management team; constantly improve functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of Optum applications; adhere to Optum version control, release management, and deployment protocols to distribute new functionality to the user base; satisfy Optum data accessibility standards by ensuring all Optum electronic information and technology is fully usable by people with disabilities; facilitate all Optum quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing, by quickly resolving issues and providing all required metrics and data, including issue tracking; design and develop reporting as needed to summarize and analyze Optum application functionality; ensure these proprietary applications satisfy Optum's rigorous internally-defined technical requirements for performance, resiliency, availability and scalability; collaborate with Optum solutions users to build, extend, and enhance applications that accelerate efficiency and innovation across the organization; and provide post deployment support and to quickly respond to and resolve unexpected service problems in production. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S. Please email your resume to [email protected] and reference job 2208647.