Senior Data Engineering Consultant

Requisition Number: 2357606
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:

• Build high performing and scalable data systems, applications, and data pipelines to process very large amounts of data from multiple sources
• Develops services, controls, and reusable patterns that enable the team to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably in the public cloud and on prem
• Collaborate on Big Data systems, and features within an Agile environment
• Collaborate with cross-function teams of developers, senior architects, product managers, DevOps, and project managers
• Deliver solutions that are devoid of significant security vulnerabilities
• Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
• Proactively automate infrastructure, application and services to enable an automated delivery through the CI/CD pipelines to the cloud and on prem
• Help convert current on prem ETL pipelines from .net to cloud using azure data factory/data bricks
• Help maintain current .Net framework till conversions are complete
• Display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
• 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 work experience
• 4+ years experience in enterprise data management, Big Data, DevOps, and Cloud based systems
• 4+ years of JavaScript, Python, C#, or complementary languages
• Experience building data pipelines on Azure with Databricks, Spark, Azure Data factory, Kafka and Kafka Streams, App services, Azure Functions, Snowflake, GraphQL)
• Experience building and deploying applications to the Azure cloud using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience building RESTful web services
• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Sonar)
• Healthcare data experience preferred along with knowledge of HIPAA/HITECH compliance
• Proficiency in software engineering with .Net(windows services, wcf services, etl) is a plus
• Proficiency in SQL, sql server
• Proficiency with Docker, PowerShell
• A view of "everything as code"
• Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and 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.