Data Engineering Manager

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.

Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles. Responsibilities may include Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud solution with a focus on data stores and associated eco systems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments. Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition. May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting and helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Guidance on complex programming
• Ensures that all the standard requirements have been met and is involved in performing the technical analysis
• Assisting the project manager by compiling information from the current systems, analyzing the program requirements, and ensuring that it meets the specified time requirements
• Resolves moderate problems associated with the designed programs and provides technical 
• Involved in creating proper technical documentation in the work assignments
• Participating in agile development projects for batch and real time data ingestion
• Working with business and peers to define, estimate, and deliver functionality
• Coaching our junior team members and providing technical support to the team
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Impact of work is most often at the local level
• 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
• 11+ years of experience in database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning
• Experience in RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, Netezza, DB2, Spark, Kafka etc.
• Good hands-on experience in BigData Technologies and Warehousing tools
• Good knowledge in Unix and shell scripting
• Solid knowledge in primary technology stack BigData Concepts, Netezza DBA, Concepts, DWH knowledge, Unix/Linux
•  Good understanding of Data Architecture
• Good understanding of Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Architecture, Cloud, Spark 
• Understanding of the business needs and designs programs and systems that match the complex business requirements and records all the specifications that are involved in the development and coding process
• Understanding of QA and testing automation process
• Skills: Azure, Databricks, DBA, BigData concepts, DWH Concepts, Cloud (Azure), Spark(Scala, PySpark)
• Proven ability to handle deliveries
• Proven ability to coach and groom team
• Proven ability to take care business deliveries on time with better quality

Preferred Qualifications:

• Skills: Kafka, Airflow, AbInitio, Agile, Automation, Big Data, Snowflakes, DevOps, Python
• Understanding and knowledge of Agile 

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.