Consultant – PowerBI, Azure Databricks

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

As part of our strategic initiative to build a centralized capability around data and cloud engineering, we are establishing a dedicated Azure Cloud Data Engineering practice. This team will be at the forefront of designing, developing, and deploying scalable data and reporting solutions on cloud primarily using Microsoft Azure platform and Power BI. The practice will serve as a centralized team, driving innovation, standardization, and best practices across cloud-based data initiatives. New hires will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data landscape, collaborating with cross-functional teams, clients, and stakeholders to deliver impactful, end-to-end solutions.

This position will design, develop, implement, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain the delivery of data enrichments and reporting models using MS Fabric/PBI infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with BI team to build and deploy healthcare data enrichments
• Design and develop high performance reporting models and dashboards using Power BI/MS Fabric
• Deploy and manage the Power BI dashboard using Power BI service
• Ensure connectivity with various sources flat files, on-prem databases, Snowflake, Databricks using Live, Direct Query and Import connections
• Design and develop Azure Databricks jobs using Python & Spark
• Develop and maintain CI/CD processes using Jenkins, GitHub, Maven
• Maintain high quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security
• Continuously explore new Azure, Power BI features and capabilities; assess their applicability to business needs
• Create detailed documentation for PBI/MS Fabric processes, architecture, and implementation patterns
• Prepare case studies and technical write-ups to showcase successful implementations and lessons learned
• Work closely with clients, business stakeholders, and internal teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions using best practices and appropriate architecture
• Contribute to full lifecycle project implementations, from design and development to deployment and monitoring
• Ensure solutions adhere to security, compliance, and governance standards
• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Support and maintain the self-service BI warehouse
• Work with business owners to add new enrichments and to design and implement new reporting models
• 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
• 7+ years of overall experience in Data & Analytics engineering
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing and deploying MS Fabric and Power BI dashboards
• 5+ years of experience working with Azure, Databricks, and Pyspark/Spark-SQL
• Solid experience with CICD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub etc.
• In-depth understanding of MS Fabric and Power BI along with deploying and managing dashboards, Apps and Workspaces along with access and security management
• Proven excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Snowflake/Airflow experience
• Experience or knowledge of health care concepts – E&I, M&R, C&S LOBs, Claims, Members, Provider, Payers, Underwriting

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.

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