Senior Data Engineering Analyst

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. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintain ETL application working with established Agile processes
• Design, code, test, debug, document and support all types of applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Proactively identify and fix production and non-production application issues
• Participate in daily Scrum meetings and delivering the assigned tasks within the timelines specified and meeting the team goal
• Translate requirements into technical specifications
• Provide explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Achieve harmonious working relationships with business partners and within the team
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize developed projects in DataStage
• Ensure timely deliveries for all assigned tasks as per defined timelines
• Ready to evaluate new tools, new techniques, and strategies
• 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:

• 6 years of experience in ETL development – DataStage, Shell Scripting
• Experience in Spark and Scala
• Experience in Python
• Experience in Health care domain
• Production support exposure
• Knowledge on End-to-end development on ETL tool using DataStage
• Working knowledge on Agile or Kanban methodology
• Knowledge on scheduler – preferably Airflow
• Proven ability to design Technical Specification documents and provide review or walkthrough to the team
• Proven good in basic SQL writing skills
• Proven good in communication and able to handle client’s queries effectively

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge on shell scripting
• Knowledge and working experience on Teradata

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.