Senior Software Engineer- ADF Python – Hyderabad

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

This position is for a data engineer in an enterprise data lake house. The primary functions of this Lakehouse will be to consolidate, clean and curate all the data in one location in order to enable the analytics and reporting needs of the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements and translating them into low level design for implementation
• Estimate the effort required to execute the business requirements
• Development of intake pipelines to ingest relevant data into Magnus to support analytics and reporting
• Track and report status on progress of development activities in team forums such as stand-up meetings
• Participate in planning activities such as Feature Grooming and PI Planning
• Driving innovation through delivery focused on reducing processing costs, automation of CI/CD pipelines and effective utilization of Azure resources
• 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

Eligibility

To apply to an internal job, employees must meet the following criteria:

• Minimum 12 months in the current role or required exception approvals
• Your current Role should be SG25 or SG26 
• Not on Active CAP at the time of applying for the IJP
• Employees must notify their Current Manager before applying for the IJP
• Last Common Review rating should be Meeting Expectations or Exceeding Expectations

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of IT experience
• Programming Languages – Solid experience with languages like Python for data analysis and application development
• Orchestration – Solid experience in using ADF and Databricks for orchestrating data workflows, data movement, and transformation
• Cloud Computing – Solid Understanding of the Azure platform and their data services
• ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) – Expertise in ETL processes and tools like DBT (Data Build Tool) and DBT framework/packages (DBT Core)
• Database Management   Systems (DBMS) – Expertise in relational databases (e.g., Microsoft SQL Server) and NoSQL databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• Health Care experience
• Proficiency in creating logical and physical data models to represent business requirements and system architecture
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts, including data storage, retrieval, and optimization
• Knowledge of data security best practices, encryption, and access controls
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, an open-table format that combines data lake flexibility with ACID transactions. Knowledge of the medallion architecture, which organizes data layers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) in a lakehouse
• Understanding of the Data Vault methodology for scalable and flexible data warehousing
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum or Scaled 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.