Sr. Data Engineer, People Team – Remote

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.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.   

Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing with a focus on business intelligence dataset development
• Design reusable components, frameworks, and libraries
• Contribute and make recommendations to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions
• Clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Work collaboratively with People Analytics on the development and production of standard datasets to drive actionable decision making and reporting stability
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets business needs, coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
• Assist with updating infrastructure components
• Use engineering best practices following an Agile methodology to deliver high-quality emerging tech solutions
• Communicate with impact – influence and negotiate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve win-win solutions that advance organizational goals
• Grow and maintain knowledge of and leverage emerging technologies
• Develop and analyze highly complex system standards, thresholds, and recommendations to maximize system performance
• Analyze project requirements and develop detailed specifications for new data warehouse reporting requirements
• Research API calls and make necessary changes to meet the business, contractual, security, performance needs
• Assesses and interprets customer requests for feasibility, priority, and complexity 
• Create and maintain internal process documentation
• Support projects and change initiatives aligned to key priorities of People Analytics and People Analytics customers
• Understands priorities and organizes prescribed and non-prescribed work to meet or exceed deadlines and expectations
• Proactively keeps data secure and decommissions legacy content in our environment
• Serve as a resource to others within the People Analytics community; mentors other data engineers; provides explanations and information to others on difficult issues, problems, and solutions
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others within the People Analytics community

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:

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 3+ years of full lifecycle application, software development experience
• 3+ years of modern programming language such as Python, Java, and Scala
• 2+ years of SDLC experience in an Agile environment
• Relational database experience (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Experience with Cloud technologies and platforms such as Docker, OSE, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, and Azure
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Big Data technologies like Spark
• Experience using IDEs such as Eclipse, JBoss, IntelliJ
• Experience ingesting and working with large and complex datasets
• Experience gathering requirements from end users 
• Working knowledge of the following business and technology concepts: APIs, CI/CD, Big Data, data architecture and governance

Preferred Qualifications

• DevOps experience
• Experience with People Data
• Experience with disaster and recovery models
• Experience creating user stories in an agile tool using gherkin format methodology

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

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. 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.     

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.