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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, 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.

We are searching for an innovative Data Engineer to join our experienced team. This creative role offers an excellent opportunity to directly impact an innovative function and secure your future with an industry leader. This position is predominantly responsible for engineering to design, develop, implement, test, deploy, monitor and maintain the delivery of data in a systematic method. This role will cover all primary development and maintenance activities across all technology functions to ensure that we deliver data with high quality for our users, applications, and services and to understand customer needs/business requirements as an individual contributor to deliver business value. Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Accountable for data engineering lifecycle including research, proof of concepts, design, development, test, deployment and maintenance

• Design, develop, implement and run cross-domain, modular, optimized, flexible, scalable, secure, reliable and quality data solutions that transform data for meaningful analyses and analytics while ensuring operability

• Design, develop, implement and run data solutions that improve data efficiency, reliability and quality, and are performant by design

• Layer in instrumentation in the development process so that data pipelines can be monitored. Measurements are used to detect internal problems before they result into user visible outages or data quality issues

• Build processes and diagnostics tools to troubleshoot, maintain and optimize solutions and respond to customer and production issues

• Embrace continuous learning of engineering practices to ensure industry best practices and technology adoption, including DevOps, Cloud and Agile thinking

• Tech debt reduction/ Tech transformation including Open-source adoption, Cloud adoption, HCP assessment and adoption

• Contribution to our industry community and strive to reuse and share components wherever possible across the organization

• Maintain high quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security

• Identifies solutions to non-standard complex requests and problems and creates solution and/or conducts complex analyses

• Interprets policies and applies experience

• Works independently

• Has responsibility and capability to work multi-platforms

• Possesses capability to work on full business and/or technology stack

• Provides guidance, assistance and consultation to others (i.e., SME, Mentor)

• Demonstrates expertise in leading-edge theories, techniques and/or technologies

• Leads the development of new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging customer requirements

• Identifies and solves problems that impact the management and direction of the business

• Develops plans that impact the long-term success of the business

• Influences senior management decisions that impact business direction

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required

• 2+ years of experience and fully proficient with developing in Big Data and cloud tools such as Spark/Scala, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Parquet, Kafka,etc.

• Hands on experience on Snowflake , Cloud(Azure,AWS) ADF, synapse Azure ,Databricks

• 2+ years of experience and fully proficient with gathering business requirements and analyzing data

• 2+ years of experience and fully proficient with client relations/customer service

• 2+ years of experience and fully proficient with the capability to work multiplatform environments

Preferred Qualification:

• Background in healthcare

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.