Application Development Consultant

UnitedHealth Group is the most diversified health care company in the United States and a leader worldwide in helping people live healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone.

As part of our development team, you will predominantly be involved in building business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications. You'll stretch your skills and grow your careers as a primary contributor in designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with the established specifications and business requirements in order to deliver business value.

* Developing pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends * Collaborate with the team on application architecture design and decision-making * Develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business * Provide alternate design solutions along with project estimates * Design and implement application enhancements in collaboration with different teams * Troubleshoot production support issues post release deployment and come up with solutions. * Ability to solve complex production issues * Predicts emerging customer needs and develops innovative solutions to meet them * Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business * Translates highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences * Will be expected to function as a mentor for junior developers, providing assistance where needed * Will be expected to handle smaller projects completely on their own, including interactions with other teams and 3rd parties for design and architecture * Supplying input for key design and architecture decisions, as well as work estimation and resource planning * Participate in specification review, develop and test services for UHG Enterprise Service Bus application. * Provide Tier-3 production support.

**Required Qualifications:** * 3+ years of Cobol/CICS * 2+ Experience with JCL, TSO, FileAid, VSAM, MVS * 5+ years of experience with the Software Development Life Cycle * Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience. * US Citizenship required **Preferred Qualifications:** * 1+ year experience as IIB developer * 1+ year experience as Java developer * Experience with Web Service Development. * Experience with XML and source control systems. * Experience working with HTTP(s), MQ, DB and other related technologies. * Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. * Ability to work independently as well as in a group environment. * Strong analytical and problem solving skills.