Senior Data Engineer - Minnetonka, United States - UnitedHealth Group

Description

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Data Engineer within its People Analytics team. The Data Engineer must have experience with modern database technologies. The Senior Data Engineer makes design decisions and partners across the organization in a collaborative manner to achieve results for our People Team applications.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing with a focus on business intelligence dataset development in particular
• Design complex reusable components, frameworks and libraries
• Lead the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solution and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Lead design with other team members and product owners
• Lead design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets business needs, coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
• Use engineering best practices following an Agile methodology to deliver high-quality emerging tech solutions
• Communicate with impact - influence and negotiate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve win-win solutions that advance organizational goals
• Grow and maintain knowledge of and leverage emerging technologies
• Developing and analyzing highly complex system standards, thresholds, and recommendations to maximize system performance
• Analyzing project requirements and develop detailed specifications for new data warehouse reporting requirements
• Provides ideas on how technology can improve business processes
• Incorporates business objectives when evaluating processes to remove redundancies and waste
• Recommends solutions for multiple channels
• Initiates opportunities and influences stakeholders with ideas that drive business value
• Influences stakeholders to assess and manage the impacts of changes and drive decision making
• Designs solutions for every channel
• Serves as a key resource on complex issues
• Creating and maintaining internal process documentation
• Proactively keeping data secure and decommissioning legacy content

Functions may include database architecture, engineering, design, optimization, security, and administration; as well as data modeling, big data development, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) development, storage engineering, data warehousing, data provisioning and other similar roles. Responsibilities may include Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud solution with a focus on data stores and associated eco systems. Duties may include management of design services, providing sizing and configuration assistance, ensuring strict data quality, and performing needs assessments. Analyzes current business practices, processes and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging data storage and retrieval system capabilities. Manages relationships with software and hardware vendors to understand the potential architectural impact of different vendor strategies and data acquisition. May design schemas, write SQL or other data markup scripting and helps to support development of Analytics and Applications that build on top of data. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

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:

• 3+ years of data engineering experience
• 3+ years of full lifecycle application, software development experience
• 3+ years of modern programming language such as Python, Java, and Scala
• 2+ years of SDLC experience in an Agile environment
• Working knowledge of the following business and technology concepts: APIs, CI/CD, Big Data, data architecture and governance
• Experience with Cloud technologies and platforms such as Docker, OSE, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, and Azure
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub, Big Data technologies like Spark
• Experience using IDEs such as Eclipse, JBoss, IntelliJ
• Relational database experience
• Experience ingesting and working with large and complex datasets
• Experience gathering requirements from end users

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with disaster and recovery models

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

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with al minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.

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.

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