Software Engineer

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop Proficiency
• Develop proficiency in tools such as Java, Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office Excel or Access or PowerPoint
• Learn how to use Entity Relational Database Models to understand the enterprise database systems
• Learn how to use Data Warehousing design principles to create Data Marts and De-normalized views for Machine Learning Models, Business Intelligence Dashboards
• Leverage UHG’s Big Data Analytics Infrastructure comprising Hadoop, R, Python to solve complex business problems in Healthcare Domain
• Acquire understanding of US Healthcare domain
• Requirements Analysis and Planning
  • Work under supervision of Senior Data Engineers and Manager to gather requirements to create Data model for Data Science and Business Intelligence projects
  • Work closely with  Senior Data Engineers and Manager to create project plans and list down exhaustive list of activities to be carried out to implement solution
  • Engage in client communications for all important functions including data understanding or exploration, strategizing solutions etc.
  • Document the Metadata information about the data sources used in the project and present that information to team members during team meetings
• Collaboration
  • Collaborate with Enterprise and Data Lake Teams and understand the Data getting stored in enterprise Data lake teams, format in which the data gets stored and how the Data engineers can extract data from Data Lake
  • Collaborate with Data Science , Business Intelligence teams and engineer the Data and Platform approach needed to solve a business problem
• Design and Develop
  • Data Marts, De-normalized views and Data Models for projects
  • Data Quality control processes around the data sets used for analysis
• Capability Development
  • Work with Senior team members to develop new capabilities for the team
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• Experience  – Between 0-2 years of experience with below mentioned skills
  • Programming Languages – Python or Scala or Java
  • Microsoft Azure
  • NO SQL Databases – HBase or MongoDB or Cassandra
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  • Configuration Management – GitHub
  • Relational Databases – SQL Server or Oracle or Teradata or IBM DB2 or MySQL

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Knowledge or experience with Big Data Ecosystem – Hive, Sqoop, Spark (RDD, SQL, Streaming), Kafka
• Knowledge or experience with Dimensional Modeling in Big Data or Cloud environments
• Knowledge or experience with Data Warehousing Design – FACT Tables Design, Snowflake Schema on Big Data Environment
• Knowledge on Agile or Scrum
• Knowledge or experience on Elastic Search
• Knowledge or experience on Cloud Technologies – Azure or AWS
• Knowledge or experience with Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge or experience using Microsoft Excel, Power Point

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.