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 Responsibility:

• 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:

• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering (Spark and Scala)
• 4+ years of experience in building data pipeline, ETL using Databricks
• Good experience in working with Azure PaaS based application, cloud deployment
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Experience building unit tests
• Experience building queries in SQL, preferably PL/SQL
• Experience using a source control repository, preferably GIT
• Experience in using GenAI tools (Github Co-pilot etc.)
• Good understanding of secure coding best practices, remediation of security vulnerability general knowledge
• Proficiency in SQL, with practical experience in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Proven problem solving skills, able to analyze logs and trouble shoot issues
• Proven willingness to learn new technologies and eagerness to think outside the box

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure cloud experience
• Experience working in enterprise-scale data platforms
• Snowflake and Delta lake experience
• Github actions workflow experience
• Solid debugging, performance tuning, and problem-solving skills
• ETL pipeline, Azure data bricks, Scala /Python experience
• Proven ability to work effectively in a distributed, cross-functional team environment

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.