Senior 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:

• Accountable for the data engineering lifecycle including research, proof of concepts, architecture, design, development, test, deployment, and maintenance
• Design, develop, implement, and run cross-domain, modular, flexible, scalable, secure, reliable, and quality data solutions that transform data for meaningful analyses and analytics while ensuring operability
• Layer in instrumentation in the development process so that data pipelines that can be monitored to detect internal problems before they result in user-visible outages or data quality issues
• Build processes and diagnostic tools to troubleshoot, maintain, and optimize solutions and respond to customer and production issues
• Embrace continuous learning of engineering practices to ensure industry best practices and technology adoption, including DevOps, Cloud, and Agile thinking
• Tech debt reduction/Tech transformation including open source adoption, cloud adoption, HCP assessment, and adoption
• Maintain high-quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security
• 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
• Experience with data analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar
• Experience in optimizing data processing workflows for performance and cost-efficiency
• Proficient in design and documentation of data exchanges across various channels including APIs, streams, batch feeds
• Proficient in source to target mapping, gap analysis and applies data transformation rules based on understanding of business rules, data structures
• Familiarity with healthcare regulations and data exchange standards (e.g. HL7, FHIR)
• Familiarity with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) to automate repetitive tasks
• Understanding of healthcare data, including Electronic Health Records (EHR), claims data, and regulatory compliance such as HIPAA
• Proven ability to develop and implement scripts to maintain and monitor performance tuning
• Proven ability to design scalable job scheduler solutions and advises on appropriate tools/technologies to use
• Proven ability to work across multiple domains to define and build data models
• Proven ability to understand all the connected technology services and their impacts
• Proven ability to assess design and proposes options to ensure the solution meets business needs in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and feasibility 

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.