Data Engineering Consultant

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:

• Collect and interpret data for purposes of defining customer business specifications
• Act as the primary channel for the communication of routine and emergency questions, issues, and requests from client
• Build client market data sets and databases on a monthly schedule
• Foster and maintain collaborative working relationships with internal and external business partners
• Manage obstacles to effectively meet deadlines
• Investigate, analyze, and develop creative solutions to client specific problems related to any aspect of delivery through active cross-functional team participation
• Work with functional teams to provide effective consultation for plan revisions, managed strategies, product development, policy and procedure changes, legislative changes, and cost control
• Provide analytic, technical, and functional support to licensed users of decision support tool, escalating questions/issues to appropriate areas of expertise within organization, as needed
• Contribute to developing and improving Existing Process, Tools and Staff
• Provide ad hoc support to internal and external customers and team
• Other duties as assigned
• 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
• 8+ years of Scala/Python/Spark experience
• Experience with complex SQL statements and familiarity with relational databases
• AWS or Azure cloud services exposure. (AWS Glue, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Data Bricks)
• Unix scripting knowledge

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.