Senior Contact Center Engineer

UnitedHealth Group Inc

Basking Ridge, NJ

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$91,700–$163,700 Per Year
SKILLS
Alliance/Partner Marketing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Call Centers, Call Routing, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Improvement, Customer Relations, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Debugging Skills, Desktop PC, Documentation, Emerging Technology, Engineering, Facebook, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), GitHub, HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Health Plan, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Incident Management, Industry/Trade Analysis, Information Technology & Information Systems, Interaction Flow Diagram, Interviewing Skills, LinkedIn, Machine Tool, Maintain Compliance, Microsoft Windows Azure, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Network Administration/Management, On Call, Operational Improvement, Operational Support, Operations Planning, Power Outages, Printing, Process Improvement, Production Control, Production Support, Production Systems, Reporting Dashboards, Root Cause Analysis, SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), Sales, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Security Architecture, Security Infrastructure, Software Engineering, Splunk, Sustainability, Technical Drawing, Technical Support, Telephone Skills, Telephony, Time Management, Training Tools, USPS (United States Post Office), Work From Home, YouTube
LOCATION
Basking Ridge, NJ
POSTED
7 days ago

Senior Contact Center Engineer at UnitedHealth Group

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Senior Contact Center Engineer

Requisition number: 2359407 Job category: Technology Primary location: Basking Ridge, NJ Date posted: 07/07/2026 Overtime status: Exempt Travel: No

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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, and data 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead high-level production support and drive reliability, observability, and performance across our enterprise Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) platform. Our team is dedicated to delivering seamless customer interaction journeys by optimizing complex telephony systems and modern cloud integrations. In this role, you will analyze end-to-end contact flows, manage critical incident resolutions as a level 3 support specialist, and design advanced monitoring frameworks. This position is ideal for an engineer who actively utilizes and integrates modern AI productivity tools and scripting into their daily workflows to increase efficiency, automate support tasks, and continuously improve platform supportability. If you are passionate about site reliability, advanced telephony concepts, and leveraging AI-assisted engineering practices to optimize large-scale CCaaS environments, this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive impact on our operational excellence.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and enhance proactive monitoring and observability capabilities across Contact Center platforms such as NICE CXOne, Amazon Connect and related integrations
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, and platform owners to establish and enforce logging, tracing, and monitoring standards to strengthen platform reliability and supportability
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and customer reported issues, ensuring timely communication, detailed root cause analysis, and permanent remediation steps
  • Participate in on-call rotations, manage critical outages, drive cross-team bridge calls, and ensure accurate incident documentation and post incident reviews
  • Create and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerting configurations using tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Grafana, or similar
  • Analyze end-to-end contact flows and customer interaction journeys to identify defects, performance issues, or configuration gaps
  • Work closely with CCaaS vendors and third-party partners to improve operational capabilities, optimize integrations, and ensure adherence to best practices
  • Conduct change reviews, validate deployment readiness, and help implement safe, controlled releases into production environments
  • Develop automation and operational tooling using scripting and enterprise-approved AI tools to improve issue detection, reduce manual effort, and streamline repetitive support activities
  • Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline software engineering workflows, automate routine tasks, and drive continuous operational improvement
  • Evaluate emerging technology and industry trends to inform solution design, optimize CCaaS environments, and drive strategic innovation
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing by creating troubleshooting playbooks, updating guides, diagrams, and training sessions for broader support and operations teams

You"ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor"s degree OR 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience supporting NICE CXOne Contact Center platform, Good to have Amazon Connect experience
  • 3+ years of experience as a level 3 contact center production support engineer
  • 3+ years of understanding of telephony concepts - (Call Routing, SIP, Agent Desktop, CRM, Chat)
  • 3+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting within large-scale production environments
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with at least two of the monitoring/observability tools (Splunk, Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Datadog)
  • 1+ years of cloud experience in one of the following - AWS, Azure, or GCP

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor"s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field
  • Experience leveraging enterprise-approved AI productivity tools (such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or other AI-assisted coding/automation assistants) to accelerate development and optimize daily workflows
  • Certifications related to Contact center platforms
  • Solid understanding of cloud network infrastructure, API integrations, and secure deployment pipelines
  • Strong communication and documentation skills, with experience creating troubleshooting playbooks and technical diagrams for operational teams
  • All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group"s Telecommuter Policy.

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 $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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
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FOUNDED
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