Optum

Principal Data Engineer

Job description

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

We want to achieve more in our mission of health care, and so we have to be really smart about the business of health care. At Optum, we're changing the landscape of our industry. You will put your Data Engineering skills to work as you empower business partners and team members improve the healthcare system. You will research cutting edge big data tools, and design innovative solutions to solve business problems that only a Data Engineer can.

About the role

As a Principal Data Engineer , you will be part of a team working at the intersection of financial services and health care to launch new cash flow solutions to drive broader, more equitable access to capital. You will be focused on developing cutting edge data-pipelines that are the foundation of our big-data analytic platform. You will be a technical leader, focused on innovation; developing proofs of concepts that leverage data in new and exciting ways. At Optum, you'll find an organization that will recognize your talents and provide growth opportunities. Join us!

Primary Responsibilities

  • Develop data pipelines to ingest and transform data using clean coding principles
  • Contribute to common frameworks and best practices in code development, deployment and automation/orchestration of data pipelines.
  • Partner with Data Science and Product leaders to design best practices and standards for developing and productionalizing analytic pipelines.
  • Partner with Infrastructure leaders on architecture approaches to advance the data and analytics platform, including exploring new tools and techniques that leverage the cloud environment (Azure, Snowflake, others)
  • Design conceptional and logical data models, architecture diagrams and flowcharts
  • Mentor and train junior members of the team

Required Qualifications:

  • Extensive hands-on experience utilizing best practices to develop and deploy data pipelines to a production environment
  • Experience working with both real-time and batch data, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of both and when to apply one over another
  • Ability to debug complex data issues while working on very large data sets with billions of records
  • Fluent in SQL (any flavor), with experience using Window functions and more advanced features
  • Understanding of DevOps tools, Git workflow and building CI/CD pipelines
  • Ability to work with business and technical audiences on business requirement meetings, technical white boarding exercises, and SQL coding/debugging sessions
  • Familiar with Airflow or similar orchestration tool

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies
  • Experience with data de-identification and encryption
  • Experience with shell scripting languages
  • Familiar with Virtual Data Warehousing (e.g. Snowflake)
  • Well versed in Python, in fulfilling multiple general-purpose use-cases, and not limited to developing data APIs and pipelines
  • Experience with Apache Spark and related Big Data stack and technologies, preferably using Scala, else PySpark
  • Experience working with Apache Kafka, building appropriate producer/consumer apps
  • Familiarity with production quality ML and/or AI model development and deployment.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker, and knowledgeable about cloud infrastructure automation and management (e.g., Terraform)

Technology Careers with Optum . Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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.

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