Senior Software Engineer (Contact Center)

UnitedHealth Group Inc

Eden Prairie, MN

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$112,700–$193,200 Per Year
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Business Operations, Call Center Software, Call Centers, Call Routing, Cloud Computing, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cryptography, Customer Relations, Data Analysis, Facebook, Failover, Git, GitHub, HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Health Plan, Healthcare, Incident Response, International Health, Internet Security, Interviewing Skills, Leading Edge Technology, LinkedIn, Machine Tool, Metadata, Metrics, PCI, Printing, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, REST (Representational State Transfer), Realtime Transport Protocol, Root Cause Analysis, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), Sales, Software Engineering, Strategic Planning, Sustainability, System Architecture, Telephone Skills, Telephony, Theater Production, Training Tools, USPS (United States Post Office), Use Cases, User Interface Design, Voice Products, Work From Home, YouTube
LOCATION
Eden Prairie, MN
POSTED
30+ days ago

Senior Software Engineer (Contact Center) at UnitedHealth Group

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Senior Software Engineer (Contact Center)

Requisition number: 2355455 Job category: Technology Primary location: Eden Prairie, MN Date posted: 05/04/2026 Overtime status: Exempt Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

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Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care"s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The position plays a critical role in developing the next generation contact center solutions that support Optum"s AI 10.0 and digital transformation initiatives. This role focuses on solution and systems architecture-partnering closely with business and technology teams to translate complex requirements into scalable, cloud based designs.

This position will assess current-state on prem technologies and lead development strategies that enable cloud transformation, leveraging Cloud AI Bot orchestration technologies, SIP Development, and contact center services such as Amazon Connect. The role also supports the orchestration of AI driven technologies such as virtual agents, agent assist, call summarization, and analytics-ensuring seamless customer journeys across bots and live agents without degradation in call quality or experience.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience developing contact center and voice solutions, understands SIP/telephony integrations, and can design end to end solutions that support high volume, enterprise environments.

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Cloud Application & Service Development

  • Develop cloud native services using AWS primitives (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB/RDS, S3, EventBridge, etc.)

  • Develop Amazon Connect integrations, including contact flows, pre/post route services, agent assist hooks, and downstream data integrations

  • Implement REST/event driven APIs that integrate Amazon Connect with SIP, bot, analytics, and healthcare platforms

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Maintain infrastructure using Terraform and python scripting

  • Ensure repeatable, environment consistent deployments across DEV, STAGE, and PROD

  • Partner with platform and security teams to meet enterprise cloud governance standards

  • SIP Application Development

  • Develop and maintain SIP services that manage call routing, transfers, session state, and header manipulation

  • Implement support for call flows integrating carriers, SBCs, OCCAS, bots, and agent platforms

  • Enhance SIP behavior to support new features such as consult, warm transfer, barge in, and failover patterns

  • SIPREC, Recording & Media Integrations

  • Build SIPREC routing and recording integrations supporting analytics, compliance, and agent assist use cases

  • Partner with cloud and media teams to ensure reliable RTP and metadata capture

  • DevOps & CI/CD

  • Implement GitHub based CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments

  • Embed automated testing, artifact scanning, and promotion controls

  • Support trunk based development and safe production release patterns

  • Security, Compliance & Cost Awareness

  • Apply Optum security best practices including IAM least privilege, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit, and logging

  • Support PCI aware and regulated workloads as part of cloud integrations

  • Monitor and optimize cloud spend using FinOps principles

  • Observability & Operations

  • Implement logging, metrics, and tracing using various technologies and enterprise observability tooling

  • Participate in production support, incident response, and root cause analysis

  • Build operational runbooks and automation for day 2 support

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 other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer OR Cloud Developer
  • 5+ years of experience developing on SIP based solutions and AWS (application and infrastructure) including cloud networking, identity, security, and operational best practices
  • 3+ years of experience developing, or supporting enterprise contact center solutions, including voice and digital customer interaction platforms
  • 3+ years of proficiency with Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code
  • 2+ years of hands on experience with SIP Solutioning, Amazon Connect or CCaaS integrations

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience integrating Amazon Connect with SIP transport, bots, or voice analytics platforms
  • Experience with containerized workloads and event driven architectures
  • Working knowledge of voice technologies and integrations, such as SIP / telephony concepts and end to end call flow design across bots and live agents
  • Familiarity with regulated workloads (PCI, healthcare data flows)

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you"ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 to $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
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