Senior Software Engineer - Austin, TX - 2373630
Company: Optum
Location: Austin, TX 78727
Salary: $163,550 - $195,174 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-06-29
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Senior Software Engineer - Austin, TX - 2373630
EMPLOYER: Optum Services, Inc.
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
LOCATION: 12357-C Riata Trace Parkway, Bldg. 7, Austin, TX 78727
DUTIES: Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Duties to include: Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform, and store healthcare data from various enterprise data sources; Analyze raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application; Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as Data encryption, Data de-identification to ensure data security, Role-based data access, Automate manual processes, Optimize data delivery, and Tune and optimize data processes for greater scalability; Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes; Code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions; Define security and backup strategy for data solutions; Build and implement batch and near real time data pipelines; Help to ensure successful deployment of newly implemented data solutions; Work with less structured, more complex issues; and Serve as a technical leader and mentor to others.
REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Senior Software Engineer-related occupation. Gained progressive experience in the following:
- Oracle 12c/11g/10g/9i SQL/PLSQL and Postgres SQL;
- Data Modeling;
- Unix shell Scripting;
- Java (JEE), Spark, Python, or Scala;
- Docker;
- Cloud platforms such as Google, AWS, Azure, Airflow, Splunk or Github;
- SQL and object-oriented / object functional scripting languages such as Python, Scala, and Java;
- GitHub and cloud environment tools;
- Developing big ...