Telecommute PositionResponsibilities: Design, develop, and modify highly specialized computer applications to drive 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 regulationsCreate efficient, high performance enhancements to proprietary applications, enhancements that address and achieve specific customer goalsDesign, develop, and implement new technology features that build on existing functionality, including but not limited to integrating with new technologyEnsure compliance with 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 teamImprove functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of applicationsAdhere to version control, release management, and deployment protocols to distribute new functionality to the user base. Satisfy data accessibility standards by ensuring all electronic information and technology is fully usable by people with disabilitiesFacilitate all quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing, by quickly resolving issues and providing all required metrics and data, including issue trackingDesign and develop reporting as needed to summarize and analyze application functionalityCollaborate with solutions users to build, extend, and enhance applications that accelerate efficiency and innovation across the organizationProvide post deployment support and to quickly respond to and resolve unexpected service problems in production. Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles. Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud solution with a focus on data stores and associated eco systems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments. Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition. May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting and helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Required: 5+ years of IT experience. Experience: 5 years required