Data Engineering Manager

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and continuously improve software
  
• Support driving modern solutions to complex problems
  
• Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness
  
• Implement small and large scale implementations of projects with E2E delivery
  
• Facilitate technical discussions and design solutions
  
• Technically coach the team members and provide real time solutions to complex problems
  
• Adherence to code quality standards, development best practices, defect-free code delivery
  
• Collaborate and Communicate effectively with other engineers and onshore team
  
• Partner with business and enterprise architecture team to understand requirements and design/develop end to end solution
  
• Practice agile solution delivery & influence teams towards engineering best practices such as DevOps / CICD / Everything as a code
  
• Follow engineering best practices and coding standards for successful delivery of program/project
  
• Partner closely with global teams to implement the design
  
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
  
• Understand product architecture, features being built and come up with product improvement ideas and POCs
  
• Individual contributor and Technical lead for Data Engineering – Data pipelines, Data modelling and Data warehouse
• 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
• 5+ years of Spark/Scala experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in production public cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Hands-on experience in working with standard DevOps tools:
  • Build automation tools such as Hudson, Jenkins, Travis CI or equivalent
  • Source control tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN or equivalent
  • Configuration tools such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible
• Hands-on in designing software solutions and architecture
• Hands-on in using design patterns
• Hands-on knowledge in trouble shooting, performance tuning, and optimization
• Solid, hands-on knowledge of Angular/ReactJS
• Experience working in cross-functional teams – Solution Design, Development, Quality Engineering and DevOps
• Proven solid analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a global team with a positive team spirit

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Work experience in product engineering
• Knowledge of US Healthcare domain, in general and data analytics applications/products in particular

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.