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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with solution architects and other software engineers to evaluate functional and non-functional requirements and deliver creative, high quality solutions

• Design, develop, test and maintain data intensive applications including ETL, relational and non-relational data storage, APIs, UI and data application development

• Follow and improve on processes for continuous delivery and DevOps within your team

• Build and main configuration management and automation tools, deployment strategies/processes, monitoring tools

• Collaborate on quality strategies that ensure our data platform is correct, resilient, scalable and secure

• Participate in and provide input for system analysis, design walkthroughs and code reviews

• Participate in defect review and triage

• Adhere to design/coding standards and constantly improve the way we build and deliver software

• Technical analysis of existing reporting solutions to identify opportunities for improvement both from a best practice and quality/ performance improvement perspective

• Drive continuous improvement and automation solutions and processes

• Maintain the production products, solutions, documentation, and environments to ensure optimal health, including resolving production issues and responding quickly to priority problems

• 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:

• BTech in computer science or similar field with minimum 5 years’ experience of Data Engineering

• Experience in ETL/Pipeline Development using tools such as Azure Databricks/Apache Spark and Azure DataFactory with development expertise on batch and real-time data integration

• Experience in programming using Scala or Python

• Experience in data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization techniques in optimally addressing the data requirements

• Experience in Cloud data warehouse like Azure Synapse, Snowflake analytical warehouse

• Experience with Orchestration tools, Azure DevOps and GitHub

• Experience in building end to end architecture for Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Marts

• Experience in relational data processing technology like MS SQL, Delta lake, Spark SQL

• Experience to own end-to-end development, including coding, testing, debugging and deployment

• Experienced in Software Engineering practices like Reliability Engineering, Deployment planning, Fault Tolerant architecture, Test Automation

• Familiarity with Azure services like Azure functions, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Cosmos

• Extensive knowledge of ETL and Data Warehousing concepts, strategies, methodologies

• Familiarity with Healthcare business data models

• Proven ability to provide solutions that are forward-thinking in data and analytics

• Proven team oriented with solid collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills

• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills

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.