Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer – Dublin or Letterkenny, Hybrid

Optum is a global organisation 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.

About the Role:

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we’re on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding team’s healthcare system work better for everyone.

As a Senior Data Engineer, this individual will be part of newly formed team that is focused on developing a new, cutting-edge big-data analytic platform and that will support data pipelines that ultimately improve health outcomes for our members.  This individual will be responsible for the integration of multiple complex data sources into our data platform with a mix of different platforms (i.e. Kubernetes, Hadoop) and various data applications (i.e. Spark, Hive, HBase, Airflow, etc.). This role will also work closely with the Data Science and Business Intelligence teams to develop a new, cutting-edge big-data analytic platform and that will support advanced solutions to improve health outcomes for our members.

The individual will be in the driver’s seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission.

Primary Roles & Responsibilities of a Senior Data Engineer:

• Design and build data pipelines (mostly in Spark) to process terabytes of data
• Orchestrate in Airflow the data tasks to run on Kubernetes/Hadoop for the ingestion, processing, and cleaning of data.
• Create Docker images for various applications and deploy them on Kubernetes
• Design and build best in class processes to clean and standardize data.
• Troubleshoot production issues in our Elastic Environment.
• Tuning and optimizing data processes.
• Modelling of big volume datasets to maximize performance for our Business Intelligence and Data Science teams.

Required Qualifications of a Senior Data Engineer:

• Computer Science bachelor’s degree or similar
• Hands on experience on the following technologies: 
  o    Developing processes in Spark  
  o    Writing complex SQL queries 
  o    Building ETL/data pipelines  
  o    Exposure to Kubernetes and Linux containers (i.e. Docker)  
  o    Related/complementary open-source software platforms and languages (e.g. Scala, Python, Java, Linux)
• Exposure to the following technologies: 
  o    Airflow 
  o    Hive /HBase / Presto 
  o    Jenkins / Travis 
  o    Kafka 
  o    Cloud technologies: Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure
• Previous experience with Relational Databases (RDBMS) & Non- Relational Database
• Analytical and problem-solving experience applied to a Big Data environment and Distributed Processing.
• Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies
• Exposure to DevOps methodology
• Data warehousing principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
• Fluent in English both written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications of a Senior Data Engineer:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Autonomous  
• Negotiation and Influencing Skills
• Healthcare / Pharmacy experience

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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