Director Data Engineering

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.

ECDH is a UHC Clinical Technology engagement OGA India team has with Clinical Business under Mouli Venkatesan and Nagaraja Nayak. ECDH has several commitments to the UHC clinical business, Optum Care to identify gaps in care, enable HEDIS reporting and empower care management through acquisition of clinical data across multiple formats and diverse channels.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Trusted partner of the technical leadership of an organization, typically at the Director level
• Key influencer in planning strategy and bring in business and industry context to technology decisions
• Architecture should be exemplary in terms of efficiency, stability, extensibility, and the ability to evolve over time
• Simplify processes and technologies Software is robust in the presence of failures, scalable, and cost-effective
• Coding practices are exemplary in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation
• Decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions
• Be flexible, adapting to meet the needs of the team, project, or product
  
• Solicit differing views and are willing to change your mind as you learn more
  
• As a “hands-on” technical leader, split your time between coding, design, and architecture based on where the greatest impact (or in response to job requirements)
• Amplify impact by leading design reviews for complex software projects and/or critical features
• Probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding
  
• Align teams toward coherent architectural strategies
• Educate, keeping the engineering community up to date on advanced technical issues, technologies, and trends
• 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:

• 15+ years of experience in software development, design and implementation
• Experience with metering and monitoring in cloud via Azure monitor & Application Insights
• Deep understanding of Technologies, Java, Cloud, Data analysis, ETL or Data Processing
• Understanding of security threats and patterns comprehensively and ensures adherence to all regulatory initiatives. HIPAA, PHI, PII, locational data restrictions, contractual, etc.
• Understanding of the current environment and provide recommendations of how to leverage multiple services within the cloud
• Proven ability to create/review/update application design and deployment patterns for the public/private/hybrid cloud contexts
• Proven ability to work with leaders and team members at all levels and across functional lines
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership in architecture, design and engineering in modernization of legacy Data Ingestion, ETL and Database to new technologies in the Public Cloud (Azure)
• Proven ability to look across teams and products to find synergies and solutioning mindset to identify/remove duplication
• Proven ability to produce solutions that are models of performance, scalability, and extensibility
• Proven ability to enable next generation streaming applications to use Data as a strategic platform to grow the top line revenue
• Proven ability to stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry evaluating emerging software technologies
• Proven ability to stay current on new industry wide threat vectors and ensures processes are updated to avoid or remediate
• Proven ability to actively mentor team members, through code reviews, brown bags, tech talks, design reviews
• Proven ability to design and implement end-to-end data solutions (storage, integration, processing, visualization) in Azure
• Proven ability to design and implement streaming solutions using Kafka or Azure Stream Analytics
• Proven ability to provide best practices around provisioning production and non-production environments on Azure to optimize usage and cost
• Proven ability to propose architectures that consider cost/spend in Azure and develop recommendations to right-size Azure data infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• Machine Learning: Familiarity with machine learning concepts and techniques, as well as experience in implementing machine learning models in data engineering pipelines
• Data Science: Understanding of statistical analysis, data exploration, and data visualization techniques used in data science, enabling collaboration with data scientists

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.