Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm

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.

Life Sciences is a fast-growing part of our business. Optum has set up a new business unit, based in Ireland, to serve this segment. Our Technology team, the Optum Product Engineering Nexus (OPEN) are looking for a Data Engineer to help shape new products and services we will offer to the market via this new business unit.

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

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes.
• Write code, and leverage tools, to transform data to incorporate business logic as defined in conjunction with the RX Business, RX Optum Technology and Digital Teams
• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions
• Analyze raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application
• Migrate data from legacy systems to new solutions
• Design conceptional and logical data model and flowcharts
• Define security and backup strategy for data solutions
• Design, build and implement real time / near real time data pipelines
• Design and prototype data monitoring models for pipeline
• Write technical documentation
  

Required Qualifications

• Experience with data processing and SQL databases.
• Advanced SQL experience
• Previous experience with Relational Databases (RDBMS) and Non - Relational Database.
• Previous experience in implementation of ETL applications, Data warehousing/ data modelling principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
• Working Knowledge on public clouds like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and developing applications on Linux environments
• Experience with Hadoop/Snowflake/Vertica/Redshift/Synapse
• Experience with Spark/Databricks in data processing and machine learning processes.
• Experience with Airflow in implementation of data pipeline orchestrations, Airflow operators and hooks.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker, designing, implementing and running data applications.
• Hands-on experience with Python (Java, Scala, useful too)
• Experience with agile / scrum methodologies
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and Google Cloud
• Experience building OLAP Cubes/Databases
• Experience working in data warehouse.
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and practices
• Agile development methodology
• Experience of Kimball, Data Vault
• Experience of Data Build Tool
  

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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 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.

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