Data Engineering Consultant

Optum is a global organization dedicated to transforming healthcare through technology, data, and intelligence. The work you do here will directly impact the lives of millions by improving access to care, optimizing pharmacy benefits, and enabling data-driven decisions across the healthcare ecosystem.

With a strong culture of inclusion, innovation, and continuous growth, Optum provides an environment where experienced professionals can make meaningful contributions while advancing their careers. Join us as we continue Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibility – 

Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains database queries and data analysis
Develops and implements scripts to maintain and monitor and completes performance tuning
Applies data transformation based on understanding of data structures in place using common methods
Understands all the connected technology services and their impacts
Assesses design and proposes options to ensure solution meets business needs in terms of security, scalability, reliability and feasibility
Effectively communicates with business stakeholders and technical team
Understand to work with AI tools which can effectively help in productivity improvement.
Understands data for a line of business and is able to identify actionable insights
Breaks complex topics into meaningful chunks of information
Sorts through large amounts of data to assess for relevancy
Considers the customer experience, business impact and solution objective when managing risks and development and design of solutions
Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to improve overall quality
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
 

– Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Technology or related field required. (4+ years of comparable work experience beyond the required years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree)
5+ SQL server experience, developing efficient, well-performing queries
5+ SQL Server experience maintaining a SQL Server
3+ years of reporting/analytic experience

Skillset : Azure Cloud, SSMS, Azure SQL MI, Performance tools exposure.

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM
 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. #NJP #NIC