Overview
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
The Pricing team
The Pricing team is part of Optum Rx's Dublin office and is a key contributor to enabling the delivery of more sophisticated pricing tools and strategies. Our solutions help the organization to maintain its competitiveness in winning new business and driving our market presence. The team has a very solid technical, data and analytical capability which supports the bid life-cycle through automation, analytics and data driven strategic recommendations. The tools and solutions developed are scalable, robust and production ready to meet ever growing bid activity.
Role outline
As part of this role, you will be engaged into modernizing Repricing Assistant Application that integrates into the PULSE ecosystem enabling the Underwriting and Sales teams to support multiple-business partners and potential new opportunities. Leveraging our solid business relationships these new tools and insights are integrated into existing processes to empower our business and collectively achieve our specific economic targets and plans.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities
Write efficient code following best practices to deliver robust, sustainable, and scalable solutions: C#, SQL
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment
Utilizing DevOps Tools like GitHub Actions, Databricks, Datafactory
Delivering the full migration/ modernization roadmap from current on-prem solution to cloud
Use AI tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, and test generation while maintaining coding standards
Provide technical support to team for existing applications and help business team in resolving technical issues
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's/ Master’s degree in engineering, Data Analytics, or related field with significant experience building enterprise-grade software solutions
Demonstrated expert-level proficiency in C# (object oriented programming), including solid understanding of architectural patterns, system design principles, and large scale solution development
Demonstrated advanced SQL skills and deep experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server), including optimization, stored procedures, and performance tuning for high-volume applications
DevOps & Cloud: Proven hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and Azure services
Proven hands on experience designing, building, and deploying distributed systems with solid emphasis on scalability, resilience, and fault-tolerant architectures
Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team, managing multiple priorities and delivering results within deadlines
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated familiarity with scripting languages like Python or R
Proven experience documenting technical requirements, data definitions, and operational processes
Proven experience analyzing and improving workflows by evaluating process maps and flowcharts, identifying inefficiencies, and recommending enhancements to workflows, procedures, technology, and tools
Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated sound knowledge and experience of testing methodologies
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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