Senior Data Engineering Consultant – Teradata DBA

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:

• Manage, monitor, and maintain OnPrem Teradata hardware/software including patches, replacements, and upgrades with support from Teradata
• Plan and execute tasks required to ensure the Teradata system is operational including occasional evening and weekend support for Teradata maintenance
• Provide direction to developers on Operational and Design, Development, and Implementation projects to ensure best use of the Teradata system including review/approval of SQL code
• Performing database backup and recovery operations using the BAR DSA and NetBackup
• Developing of pro-active processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning
• Providing day-to-day support for the EDW users problems like job hands, slowdowns, inconsistent rows, re-validating headers for tables with RI constraints, PPIs and configuration
• Maintaining rules set in the Teradata Active System Management (TASM) and supporting workload management
• Maintaining the Teradata Workload Manager with the proper partitions and workloads based on Service Levels
• Supporting the database system and application server support for the Disaster Recovery (DR) build/test, annual drill, and quarterly maintenance as needed
• Actively monitoring the health of the Teradata system and Teradata Managed Servers (TMS) using Viewpoint and other tools and application servers and make preventive or corrective actions as needed
• Maintaining access rights, role rights, priority scheduling, and reporting using dynamic workload manager, Database Query Log (DBQL), usage collections and reporting of ResUsage, AmpUsage, security administration etc.
• Coordinating with the team and customers in supporting database needs and make necessary changes to meet the business, contractual, security, performance, and reporting needs
• Supporting internal or external audit process and address vulnerabilities or risk proactively
• Coordinating with Teradata to perform Teradata system hardening and delivery of Safeguard Computer Security Evaluation Matrix (SCSEM) Reports as needed, addressing issues in the hardening and vulnerability scan report
• Generating and maintaining capacity management, Space, and CPU reports on analyzing the Spool, CPU, I/O, Usage, and Storage resources and proactive monitoring to meet performance and growth requirements
• Reviewing and resolving Teradata alerts and communicate any risk / issues or impact to the management, team, and business users through appropriate communication strategy
• Performing additional duties that are normally associated with this position, as assigned
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of proven experience as primary Teradata DBA
• 5+ years of experience writing/Tunning complex SQL using SQL Assistant/Teradata Studio
• 5+ years logical and physical data modeling experience
• 5+ years with Erwin or other data modeling software
• 3+ years of experience as a Teradata DBA on Version 15+
• 3+ years of experience with Teradata Intelliflex
• 3+ years of experience extracting, loading, and transforming structured/unstructured data using Teradata Utilities (FastLoad, Multiload, FastExport, BTEQ, TPT) in a Unix/Linux environment
• 3+ years of experience performance tuning in a large database (>20 TB) or data warehouse environment, using advanced SQL, DBQL and Explain plans
• 3+ years of experience analyzing project requirements and developing detailed database specifications
• 3+ years of experience identifying and initiating resolutions to customer problems and concerns associated with a query or database business need Data Warehouse or equivalent system experience
• 3+ years working with end users/customers to understand requirements for technical solutions to meet business needs
• 3+ years identifying and initiating resolutions to customer problems and concerns associated with a Data Warehouse or equivalent system

Preferred Qualifications:

• Teradata Vantage Certified Master
• 3+ years working with technical developers to strategize solutions to align with business requirements
• 3+ years defining standards and best practices and conducting code reviews
• Experience in Application Server Hardware/Software Administration (Windows/Linux)
• Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications
• Proven excellent verbal/written communication, end client facing, team collaboration, and mentoring skills

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.