Technology Development Program
Software Engineering Associate – 2025
Join our team of technology professionals who are deeply engaged in determining how we can change and
improve health care. We encourage you to apply today. Find out how Optum’s Technology Development
Program can lead to Caring. Connecting. Growing Together.
About Optum
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is a leading information and technology-
enabled health services company serving more than 132 million consumers, delivering the right care when
and how it’s needed. We are dedicated to evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live
their healthiest life.
What is it like to work in Technology at Optum:
Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet - technology and health care - with a culture of
performance, collaboration, and opportunity and this is what you get: leading-edge solutions that improve
the lives of millions. At Optum, our approach to technology isn’t about designing another app to fix health
care. It’s about connecting patients to their physician and connecting a disconnected health system so that it
works better for the people it was created to serve.
Our global technology team consists of more than 40,000 innovators from around the world passionate
about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care
system through modern and innovative technologies, AI, comprehensive clinical expertise, and extensive
experience in improving operational and clinical performance.
As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working
alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care
experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to
use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.
Optum’s Technology Development Program:
The Technology Development Program (TDP) at Optum includes a 4-week bootcamp followed by a 12-
month development program which includes two 6-month rotation and Grade Placement at the end. As a
TDP Associate, you’ll gain invaluable experience in a variety of domains, as well as mentoring from
technology leaders, networking across the technology organization and collaboration opportunities. The
program creates a cohort structure that provides a more personalized employment experience in turn
creating community and increasing engagement beyond that of a traditional hire.
Key Information Regarding Software Engineering:
Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing
and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary
development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our
applications, products, and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.
These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging,
standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new
development, operations, and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for
building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies;
Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion
around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and
opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.
TDP will be offering the following start date and location combinations for 2025:
Date of Joining Office Locations *
Hyderabad, India
July 29, 2025
Gurugram, India
* You will be assigned location basis business requirement.
The first 4 weeks on the job, the TDP Associate will participate in an orientation and onboarding bootcamp
which requires you to be in office for the duration.
Upon completion of the bootcamp, the TDP Associate will work in a hybrid model. This requires the TDP
Associate to be in office 60% of the time, on average, at the site they were hired.
Full time telecommuting is not available for this position.
Sponsorship is not available for this position.
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what
it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for potential future roles.
Required Qualifications:
• Degree in BE/ BTECH/ MCA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering,
Data Science, IT & other technology related fields; CGPA- 7.0 or above, No active backlogs
• Currently in final year of obtaining a bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited
college/university in majors stated above
• Proficient in one or more coding languages (Example: Python, Java, C, SQL, .NET)
• Must be eligible to work in India without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-
based work authorization.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Involvement in any additional technical activities (Robotics, Comp. Science/Tech clubs, Tech or
Engineering side projects, GitHub, etc.) and/or tech related employment experience
• Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• Experience with software engineering tools such as source code control systems (i.e. GIT, GitHub),
IDE, Continuous Delivery and deployment pipeline, etc.
• Understanding of Agile Frameworks, methodologies, roles, and tools (Kanban, Scrum, SaFE, LeSS,
etc).
