Design, develop, test, and document complex ETL and Spark jobs on Azure Databricks; work with ADF, Airflow, Kafka, and RDBMS; perform technical analysis, data profiling, modeling, and ensure compliance with data security standards while supporting project management and QA/testing automation.
Requisition Number: 2340717
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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Involved in creating proper technical documentation in the work assignments
- Understanding of the business needs and designs programs and systems that match the complex business requirements and records all the specifications that are involved in the development and coding process
- ensures that all the standard requirements have been met and is involved in performing the technical analysis
- Understanding of QA and testing automation process
- Assisting the project manager by compiling information from the current systems, analyzing the program requirements, and ensuring that it meets the specified time requirements
- Resolves moderate problems associated with the designed programs and provides technical guidance on complex programming
- 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
- 10+ years of experience in Spark/Scala, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Airflow and Kafka Proficient in coding, testing, implementing, debugging, and documenting the complex Spark Jobs
- Good hands on experience on setting up Kafka streams and consuming from Kafka streams
- Experience in RDBMS like SNOWFLAKE, SQL Server, DB2 etc.
- Programming: Solid experience in Azure Databricks, Python/Scala, SQL
- ETL Tools & Big Data: Hands-on experience with Spark, Hadoop, or similar frameworks
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, (or GCP) experience
- Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes experience
- Good understanding of Spark Architecture
- Good understanding of Data Architecture and Azure Cloud
- Good knowledge in Unix and shell scripting
- Good knowledge in Data Analysis, Data Profiling and Mapping
- Data Modeling & Warehousing: Expertise in relational and NoSQL databases
- Distributed Systems: Knowledge of data partitioning and parallel processing
- Data Security & Compliance: Familiarity with GDPR, HIPAA, or similar standards
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Snowflake
- Streaming Technologies: Kafka or similar message queuing systems experience
- AI and Machine Learning Deployment: Experience in implementing AI solutions (RAG development, Agents creation), Exposure to ML model integration
- CI/CD for Data: Jenkins or other DevOps tools for data workflows experience
- BI Tools: Tableau, Power BI for reporting experience
- Understanding and knowledge of Agile
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.
Top Skills
Spark,Scala,Azure Databricks,Azure Data Factory,Airflow,Kafka,Snowflake,Sql Server,Db2,Python,Sql,Hadoop,Azure,Gcp,Docker,Kubernetes,Unix,Shell Scripting,Nosql,Jenkins,Tableau,Power Bi,Ml/Rag/Agents
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