Lead Full Stack Engineer

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:

• Ability to interact with business users, IT and customers to define application requirements
• Ability to write the code and review the code of the engineers and lead engineering teams
• Involve in critical and complex technical discussions
• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• Data Architecture & Design
  • Design and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and integration solutions
  • Define data modelling standards (dimensional, relational, NoSQL)
  • Architect and optimize platforms using Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure data services
• Technical Leadership
  • Lead and mentor data engineers; enforce coding, testing, and CI/CD best practices
  • Drive adoption of modern tools (Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Fabric, Snowflake)
  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies
• Data Engineering & Optimization
  • Build and optimize batch and real-time pipelines across APIs, databases, and streams
  • Ensure performance, cost efficiency, scalability, and reliability
  • Automate workflows for resilience
• Data Quality & Governance
  • Implement data validation, lineage, and governance frameworks
  • Ensure compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) and maintain metadata/catalog tools (Purview, etc.)
• Collaboration & Delivery
  • Partner with business, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs
• Cloud & DevOps
  • Implement cloud-based solutions (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP exposure)
  • Manage CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), monitoring, and cost optimization
• Production Operations
  • Ensure pipeline reliability, handle incidents, and perform root cause analysis
  • Define SLAs/SLOs and maintain monitoring/runbooks
• Strategy
  • Contribute to data roadmap and platform modernization
  • Improve data accessibility and align with long-term business goals
• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years in Data Engineering (ETL/ELT with SQL, Python, Spark/PySpark)
• 7+ years experience and solid Snowflake expertise (modelling, performance tuning, Snowpipe, Streams, secure sharing)
• 4+ years with Azure ecosystem (ADF, Synapse, ADLS, Purview) and Snowflake
• 2+ years in DevOps (CI/CD, Git, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with Kafka/Event Hubs and Airflow/Fabric pipelines
• Experience in data modelling, Lakehouse/data lake architectures, and NoSQL systems
• Experience in data governance, metadata, lineage, and compliance standards

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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