Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer – Dublin or Letterkenny/Hybrid

Optum is a global organisation 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:

Optum is a global organisation 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.  
As Principal Data Engineer, you will be streamlining the flow of information and deliver insights to manage our consumer analytics. The Principal Data Engineer is essential for providing robust data solutions and contribute by creating data strategy plans. Working alongside the E&I Affordability Analytics teams, you’ll have the opportunity to help making decisions easier for members and helping members save on healthcare costs. In addition to having impact on a great team, you’ll also discover the career opportunities you’d expect from an industry leader. 
  
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 or Letterkenny  office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Data Engineer:

•    Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, to ingest, transform, and store healthcare data from various enterprise data sources 
•    Analyze raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application
•    Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as:   
o    Data encryption   
o    Data de-identification to ensure data security
o    Role-based data access  
o    Automating manual processes
o    Optimizing data delivery
•    Tuning and optimizing data processes for greater scalability, etc.  
•    Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes.
•    Code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions
•    Define security and backup strategy for data solutions
•    Build and implement real time / near real time data pipelines
•    Help to ensure successful deployment of newly implemented data solutions 

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Principal Data Engineer:

•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field or equivalent industry experience 
•    Extensive experience in SQL and object-oriented / object functional scripting language: Python, Scala, Java, etc.
•    Proficient with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, and Google Clouds
•    Proven experience with Airflow, GitHub actions, Azure cloud environment tools (Data factory, Key-vault etc.)
•    Hands on experience of developing big data processes using big data tools – Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.
•    Data Quality and Data Security process, tools and technologies knowledge

Preferred Qualifications of the Principal Data Engineer:

•    Healthcare industry knowledge and experience with exposure to EDI, HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR integration standards
•    Previous experience in leading teams/people management and mentoring.
•    Data Virtualization tools and technology experience
•    Experience with Metadata management and Data Catalog management process, tools and technologies
•    Experience with Spark in data processing and machine learning processes.
•    Hands-on experience with related/complementary open-source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Angular, Scala Linux, Apache, Unix)
•    Experience with API technologies

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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: 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.