Senior Data Engineering Consultant

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:

• Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes
• Write code, and leverage tools, to transform data to incorporate business logic as defined in conjunction with the OptumInsight business and technology partners
• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable solutions using ETL, Azure, Databricks
• Analyze raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application
• Migrate data from legacy systems to new solutions
• Design conceptional and logical data model and flowcharts
• Define security and backup strategy for data solutions
• Design, build and implement real time / near real time data pipelines
• Design and prototype data monitoring models for pipeline
• Write technical documentation
• 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
• Advanced SQL experience, PLSQL scripting, Performance tune
• Hands-on experience with Python (Java, Scala, useful too)
• Solid experience with Airflow, Github
• Solid experience in implementation of ETL applications, Data warehousing/ data modelling principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
• Experience with data processing and Oracle, Terradata, MySQL databases
• Experience with Relational Databases (RDBMS) and Non – Relational Database
• Experience with Spark/Databricks in data processing and machine learning processes
• Experience with Airflow in implementation of data pipeline orchestrations, Airflow operators and hooks
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker, designing, implementing and running data applications
• Experience with agile / scrum methodologies
• Working Knowledge on public clouds like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and developing applications on Linux environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as Azure
• Experience building OLAP Cubes/Databases
• Experience working in data warehouse
• Trainee level experience on experience with Hadoop/Snowflake//Synapse
• Experience or knowledge in Agile development methodology
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and practices

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.