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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.

About the Role

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

As Senior Director of Data Engineering , you will be the leader of the Data Architecture and Engineering Capability in our Ireland office that is focused on developing a new, cutting-edge data platform supporting advanced analytics and machine learning models to improve health outcomes for our members. In this strategic and highly visible role, you will be responsible for shaping the direction of our data engineering function focusing on the integration of multiple complex data sources into a data platform with a mix of different infrastructure (i.e. on-prem, cloud) and various data domains (i.e. claim, membership, auth) and tools (i.e. Spark, Hive, HBase, Airflow, etc.). You will be driving our data strategy focused on innovation; developing proofs of concepts that leverage data in new and exciting ways. You'll be in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Are you a visionary leader with a passion for building high-performing data engineering teams? If yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel the mission of revolutionizing healthcare through the power of data.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the data analytics and engineering organizations, aligning it with overall business objectives

• Architect and implement a secure, scalable, and future-proof data infrastructure that supports the organization’s growing analytical needs

• Champion data governance initiatives, ensuring data security, quality, and compliance throughout the data lifecycle

• Lead and mentor a talented team of data engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning

• Partner with Data Science and Business Intelligence leaders to design and implement a secure, compliant, and scalable data infrastructure to support the organization’s growing date needs

• Support and promote common frameworks and best practices in code development, deployment and automation/orchestration of data pipelines

• Oversee the deliverables assigned to the data architecture team, ensuring accurate, concise documentation of the code base including data ingestion an enrichment pipelines

• Partner with Technology and Infrastructure leaders on architecture approaches to advance the data and analytics platform, including exploring new tools that leverage the cloud environment

• Drive and influence data engineering migration efforts from on-premises solutions to cloud

• Drive a performance-driven culture, setting clear goals and measuring results

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or business administration

• Proven experience in guiding IT strategy to help a broader business organization to meet its goals and objectives

• Proven track record of leading high-performing data engineering and analytics organizations preferably at the healthcare industry

• Thorough understanding of data architecture, data governance, and data security principles

• Proven track record working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), big data technologies (Snowflake, Scala, Spark, PySpark, etc.)

• Systematic understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI)

• Exceptional leadership qualities, including strategic thinking, problem-solving, cross team collaboration, decision-making and influencing abilities

• Executive presence and the ability to represent the data engineering and architecture function effectively across the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technology related fields

• Healthcare industry knowledge and experience with exposure to EDI, HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR integration standards

• Cloud and data engineering certifications

• Data virtualization tools and technology experience with tools like such Python Dash, Tableau, R-shiny, etc.

• Experience building statistical models using SAS or R

• ML and/or AI model development and deployment

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.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.