Senior Applications Developer - Plymouth, MN

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.

At Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group company, our people and technology meet the benefits needs of employees and families at more than one-fourth of the Fortune 500 companies through customization and innovation. National employers can then best access the full range of products and services offered by UnitedHealth Group companies while enjoying the ease of integrated administration for all employee services. It's a thriving business with an added personal significance…and a rare combination that will allow your career to flourish.



Responsibilities:


Provides team leadership in areas of specific technical knowledge that is frequently sought out by others with significant experience in a single, complex development environment or across multiple platforms.


Assist with defining requirements; can perform detailed analysis of systems specifications for complex systems.
Identify and design most efficient and cost effective solution through research and evaluation of alternatives.
Complete coding on new, complex and involved systems; conduct code reviews.
Efficient tester; document integrated system test plans.
Evaluate, redesign and modify existing program logic to improve overall system performance.
Evaluate and modify existing programs that take changes in systems requirements or equipment configurations into consideration.
Conduct feasibility studies for significant new systems or expansion of current systems.
Develop project cost and benefit estimates, including identification and evaluation of alternatives.
Provide input to technical standards and systems investments.
Assist in evaluating alternative protocols, tools, standards and systems investments.
Able to provide training and assistance on full range of technical issues to lower level staff on a project team.
Able to carry out human resources administration activities such as interviewing job applicants, providing input to performance evaluations, etc.
Able to act as"in charge" project leader for smaller projects or in temporary absence of project leader / manager.
Work independently on most aspects of work.
Receive general direction with occasional work review on other aspects.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:
5-7 years of experience in a single complex development environment or across multiple platforms.
3+ years Java development experience required.
3+ years Web Application Server experience required (WebSphere) required.
In depth understanding of business unit functions and applications.
Possess unique or specific technical and business knowledge related to information systems applications that is frequently sought out by others.
Strong knowledge of systems development life cycle specific to technical design, development and unit testing.
Strong knowledge of operational maintenance environment.
Technical training skills.
Shows strong, general understanding of health care industry.
Effective communications with all levels of internal and external customers and staff.
Able to lead walk through of design documents.
Independent communication with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project related items such as priorities and completion deadlines.
Lead others toward technical accomplishment, collaborative project team efforts and achievement of important project goals.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V