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 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:

• Designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains database queries and data analysis
• Develops and implements scripts to maintain and monitor and completes performance tuning
• Applies data transformation based on understanding of data structures in place using common methods
• Understands all the connected technology services and their impacts
  Assesses design and proposes options to ensure solution meets business needs in terms of security, scalability, reliability and feasibility
• Effectively communicates with business stakeholders and technical team
• Understand to work with AI tools which can effectively help in productivity improvement
• Understands data for a line of business and is able to identify actionable insights
• Breaks complex topics into meaningful chunks of information
• Sorts through large amounts of data to assess for relevancy
• Considers the customer experience, business impact and solution objective when managing risks and development and design of solutions
• Pro-actively identifies patterns in issues and researches root-cause to improve overall quality
• 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 regard 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

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Information Technology or related field required. (4+ years of comparable work experience beyond the required years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree)
• 5+ SQL server experience, developing efficient, well-performing queries
• 5+ SQL Server experience maintaining a SQL Server
• 3+ years of reporting/analytic experience
• Skillset : Azure Cloud, SSMS, Azure SQL MI, Performance tools exposure

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.

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