Senior Data 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 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. 

The Senior Data Engineering Analyst belongs to Self-Organizing and Cross Functional development team and can convert sprint backlog items to shippable product. They collectively owns end to end development responsibility for a given Agile Team / POD. They will design, code, and test the user stories committed for a sprint. Works independently under limited supervision. Possess skills to effectively deal with issues, challenges within field of specialization to develop application solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a Team Player in an Agile team within a Release Team / Value Stream
• Develop and automate business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications
• Be technically hands-on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing
• End to End, product quality
• Participate and contribute to Sprint Ceremonies
• Promote and develop the culture of collaboration, accountability, and quality
• Provide technical support to the team and help the team in resolving technical issues
• Closely work with Tech Lead, Onshore partners, deployment, and infrastructure teams
• Basic, structured, standard approach to work
• 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
• 6+ years of experience working in Data warehousing and Data Mart Platforms
• 6+ years of working experience in ELT/ETL Design & Development and strong experience in SQL on Teradata and Snowflake preferred
• 4+ years of working experience in warehousing ecosystem: Design & Development, scheduling jobs using Airflow, running, and monitoring refreshes
• 3+ year of working experience on Big Data Technologies around Spark/Scala Or PySpark
• 3+ years of working experience in Agile team
• 2+ years of working experience to cloud and Dev Ops technologies preferably on Azure: Docker/ Kubernetes/Terraform/Chef 
• Working experience in CI/CD pipeline (test, build, deployment and monitoring automation)
• Product or Project or Program Related Tech Stack:
• SQL: (Teradata preferred or other RDBMS experience)
• DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform experience
• Scheduling: Airflow, Grafana experience
• Big Data: Scala or Spark experience
• Language: Python, Perl, Shell experience
• Knowledge of software configuration management and packaging 
• Demonstrated excellent problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product or Project or Program Related Tech Stack:
• SQL (Snowflake Platform experience)
• Linux (Azure platform) experience
• Databrics, PySpark, MS Azure, Snowflake experience
• US healthcare knowledge
• Knowledge of US Healthcare domain
• Knowledge of modern data warehousing using Snowflake, Data Lake
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a global team with a positive team spirit

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.