Associate Director, Data Engineer - Remote

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.

As an Associate Director, Data Engineer on the Optum Health Analytics team, you will work with cross-functional teams and need to be confident working independently while handling and guiding the team. You should be detail-oriented and able to document low to highly complex functional designs and data structures in order to support business and operational requirements.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, build and launch efficient and reliable data pipelines to move and transform data while assembling large, complex data sets that meet business requirements
• Build infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from wide variety of data sources including optimize data delivery and redesign infrastructure for greater scalability
• Build analytics tools that utilize data pipeline to provide actionable insights into quality of care delivered, medical expense, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional collaboration across Optum Health national and local teams as well as other OptumHealth businesses to stay informed on key initiatives, elicit business domain expertise, learn the drivers of each business area, gather and consolidate data, and align on the analytics approach and insights
• Bring innovative ideas to help continuously improve the architecture portfolio including the design, build, deploy, test and automate within hybrid cloud ecosystems
• Build, administer, maintain, and production support of Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, and SQL (SSIS) servers and databases
• Participate in troubleshooting and debugging critical problems and resolving complex technical issues that may arise in a hybrid cloud platform
• A great attitude, passion, and persistence to solve complex problems
• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Capture business requirements that can be translated into technical specifications.

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:

• Demonstrated experience integrating and mining large data sets to generate insights and inform business decisions
• Proven ability to work independently toward team and business objectives
• Experience with structuring data for effective utilization including sourcing, cleaning, managing, manipulating, automating, and optimizing output
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Proven willingness to learn and adapt to different technology stack

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with programming and relational database software such as SQL, Snowflake, Azure, etc.
• Experience with integrated service capabilities and scheduling/monitoring workflows such as Azure Data Factory, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with version control and collaboration platforms such as GitHub, etc.
• Broad technology experience, including complex systems integration and infrastructure expertise with hybrid cloud platforms

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

The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. 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.