Principal Data Engineer, AWS – 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.

Life Science Data Engineering team currently supports data pipeline making $66+M in revenue and $15+M in IOI, with ongoing 2024+ growth of financial goals. This role is linked to the LSDE goals of reducing product latency by &gt10% and increasing speed to market, as well as increasing active patient lives in LS products.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design new data pipelines, systems, and infrastructure on AWS
• Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and costs of data infrastructure and ETL processes
• Develop innovative prototypes and production-ready data applications
• Automate and orchestrate end-to-end analytic workflows
• Enhance data infrastructure with robust data governance, quality, security, and metadata
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers
• Monitor performance and improve data assets and processing methods
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on the data and analytics platform

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:

• 4+ years of experience designing, building and testing ETL pipelines
• 4+ years of experience optimizing, scaling and improving ETL pipelines
• 4+ years of experience providing code review and documenting technical designs
• 4+ years of experience working with healthcare data
• 3+ years of experience developing with AWS services like EC2, EMR, Glue, Lambda, Spark
• Experience designing and implementing automation systems
• Proficiency in Python and SQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD, DevOps
• Proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams
• Proven excellent communication, collaboration, stakeholder management skills

• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all 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.