Principal Data Engineering

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:

• Lead the team of engineers, mentor
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant batch and real-time data ingestion pipelines, data transformation and data mining jobs
• Analysis and development of Big Data solutions
• Document technical applications, specifications, and enhancements
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, quality and efficiency
• Integrate the web application with NoSQL databases leveraging the existing Kafka platform
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team
• Anticipate issues and act proactively to address potential issues
• Work with sometimes ambiguous / conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to provide functionality with the right amount of engineering
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders while defining solutions
• Lead engineers in making sound, sustainable, and practical technical decisions
• Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the core team
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to other software engineers
• Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment
• 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:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent work experience in a related field
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering with object-oriented and/or functional programming
• 5+ years of Spark/Scala, Java/J2EE, Python or PySpark and software development experience with Spring framework
• 3+ years of experience with NoSQL DB, Kafka, AVRO, GraphDB
• 3+ years of experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• 3+ years of experience of managing team of engineers
• 3+ years of experience with Public Cloud such as Azure (Preferred), AWS or Google Cloud
• 2+ years of experience with Databricks
• Hands-on experience on programming languages
• Hands-on experience on using PAAS like – Kubernetes, Openshift
• Experience with Github Actions, Jenkins CI/CD, JUnit
• Solid background on the automated unit testing technologies
• Solid understanding of NoSQL and its data modeling
• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic plans
• Demonstrated excellent communication 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.