Data Engineer

Data Engineer- Letterkenny or Dublin

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the Role:

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

We are now looking for an additional Data Engineer to enhance our Software and Data Engineering capacity to develop the analytics, analytic applications and analytic platforms in support of our business insights. As a key member of the Analytics Engineering Team, you will be part of UnitedHealth Group’s mission of helping people live healthier lives. You will work with other Software/Data Engineers and Data Scientists along with subject matter experts to deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services.

Primary Responsibilities of the Data Engineer:

• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data and Analytic solutions

• Build and optimize data workflows and pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL to process large-scale datasets efficiently.

• Develop and maintain integrations with other platforms and systems using RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

• Assist with research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks and patterns to build a sustainable Analytic platform

• Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions

• Be innovative in solution design and development to meet the needs of the business

• Analyze and define customer requirements

• Collaborate on prototypes, proof-of-concepts & design and code reviews 

• Write technical documentation and participate in production support. 

• Keep skills up to date through ongoing self-directed training 

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Data Engineer:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• Proficient in Python and SQL for data processing and analysis

• Experience in a big data environment building data processing pipelines

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs

• Background using relational databases (e.g., MySQL or PostgreSQL)

Preferred Qualifications of the Data Engineer:

• Experience with PySpark (or other frameworks) for distributed data processing large-scale datasets

• Experience in developing applications on at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred)

• Experience designing, implementing and working with microservices architecture

• Experience in messaging and streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka)

• Experience working with healthcare data

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience attending and participating in scrum agile ceremonies

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.

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. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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