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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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Finding trends in datasets and developing workflows and algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise

• Creating data acquisition strategy and develops data set processes

• Designs and implements standardized data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning and data destruction (scripts, programs, automation, assisted by automation, etc.)

• Ensures quality of technical solutions as data moves across regional data environments

• Provide insight into the changing data environment, data processing, data storage and utilization requirements for the company and offer suggestions for solutions

• Ensures managed analytic assets support Optum’s strategic goals by creating and verifying data acquisition requirements and strategy

• Develop, construct, test and maintain architectures

• Align architecture with business requirements and use programming language and tools

• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality

• Conduct research for industry and business questions

• Deploy sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods

• Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling and find hidden patterns using data

• Use data to discover tasks that can be automated

• Create data monitoring capabilities for each business process and work with data consumers on updates

• Aligns data architecture to Optum solution architecture; contributes to overall solution architecture

• Help maintain the integrity and security of the company data

• Other - Performs other duties as assigned including personnel recruitment

• Other - Performs people leadership responsibilities for Data Engineering function

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of overall experience

• 3+ years of Power BI experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in working on Production Cloud Environment like Microsoft Azure

• 2+ years of solid experience designing and building Enterprise Data solutions on cloud

• 4+ years of working experience in Python

• Experience in Reading and Loading Files into Cloud Environment from file formats such as .csv, JSON, .txt, Avro etc.

• Experience with Data warehousing services on Azure

• Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.

• Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement

• Microsoft Azure Platform Architecture knowledge

• Azure Data Factory knowledge

• Expert proficiency level on SQL

• Subject matter expert on Cloud technologies preferably Azure and Big Data ecosystem

• Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams

• 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.