Senior Data Engineer – Remote

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.  

A successful candidate for this role will be a Snowflake certified engineer with extensive experience coding Python with Airflow.  You will have deep knowledge of and hands on experience coding in Python and will have experience working in a data products environment.  The ideal candidate is skilled in building and supporting complex data pipelines and ETL/ELT and has demonstrated experience supporting industry standard data governance processes and data quality processes. Demonstrated ability to conduct data modeling and data model construction and support are also essential as is the ability to performance tune and optimize data pipelines.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• The Senior Data Engineer role will be a Snowflake certified expert and will help the Information Security organization Data Enablement team in defining, designing, constructing, processing and supporting data pipelines, data products and data assets, all in support of a wide variety of client use cases
• Maturing our Snowflake processes and implementations, integrating with various Cloud CSP data storage offerings, integrating Airflow orchestration and scheduling with various internal CICD and Devops packages
• Advancing our ongoing data strategy and solutions with a focus on Medalion Data architecture
• Working with other engineers, analysts and clients in understanding business problems, designing solutions and supporting the products that you help to build

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:

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Mathematics, Information Systems or some related field with an emphasis on coding, analytics or applied mathematics
• Current Snowpro Data Engineer certification
• 5+ years of hand on experience coding complex data pipelines with Python, Pyspark, Scala, SQL and related languages
• 4+ years of experience in a data engineering on Snowflake with Airflow
• 3+ years of experience working with and integrating pipelines and tech stack components to database products like Postgres, MySQL, MS SQLserver, Oracle, Mongo, Cassandra
• Experience working with and operating on one of the following cloud storage technologies – AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience operating in an environment with modern data governance processes and protocols
• Experience building data quality monitoring solutions
• Experience working with modern CICD and devops/dataops principals including automated deployment
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Demonstrated solid communications skills – verbally and written

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in computer science, math, analytics, data science or other similarly technical field
• Experience with Security data and information security
• Experience with Health care data
• Experience implementing data privacy controls for variety of data from HIPAA to PII to PCI etc.
• Experience with streaming technologies like KAFKA or Kinesis
• Experience building and ingesting data from APIs

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $89,900 to $160,600 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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