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UnitedHealth Group Director of Data Engineering in Dublin, Ireland
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
About the role:
As Director of Data Engineering, you will be the leader of the Data Engineering Capability in our Ireland office that is focused on developing a new, cutting-edge big-data platform and that will support advanced analytics and machine learning models to improve health outcomes for our members. You will be responsible for leading the team that is focused on the integration of multiple complex data sources into our data platform with a mix of different infrastructure (i.e. on-prem, cloud) and various data applications and tools (i.e. Spark, Hive, HBase, Airflow, etc.). You will be making critical decisions, focused on innovation; developing proofs of concepts that leverage data in new and exciting ways. Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building high-performing data engineering teams? If yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel the mission of building modern healthcare analytics powered by the data.
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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
Lead and mentor a talented team of data engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
Collaborate with Data Science and Business Intelligence leaders to design and implement a secure, compliant, and scalable data infrastructure to support the organization’s growing date needs
Build common frameworks and best practices in code development, deployment and automation/orchestration of data pipelines
Identify, design, and champion process improvements throughout the processing lifecycle for:
Data quality initiatives ensuring data integrity
Data encryption
Data de-identification to ensure data security
Role-based data access
Automating manual processes
Optimizing data delivery
Tuning and optimizing data processes for greater scalability, etc.
Own and manage the deliverables assigned to the data engineering team, ensuring accurate, concise documentation of the code base including data ingestion an enrichment pipelines that support critical analytics, as well as productionpipelines that feed into downstream systems
Drive a performance-driven culture, setting clear goals and measuring results
Required Qualifications:
MS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technology fields
Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing data engineering teams
Deep understanding of DevOps tools, Git workflow and building CI/CD pipelines
Solid experience in data engineering leadership roles, preferably within the healthcare industry
Solidexperience in data architecture, data modeling, data warehousing, and big data technologies (Snowflake, Scala, Spark, PySpark, etc.) as well as cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Solid leadership qualities, including strategic thinking, problem-solving, cross team collaboration
A passion for innovation and a desire to make a significant impact on the healthcare industry
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technology related fields
Healthcare industry knowledge and experience
Data engineering certifications
Data virtualization tools and technology experiencewith tools like such Python Dash, Tableau, R-shiny, etc
Experience building statistical models using SAS or R
ML and/or AI model development and deployment
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.
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.
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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.