Senior Data Engineer

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

4h•Remote

About The Position

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. Use your sharp technical (ETL / SQL Server) skills alongside your ability to quickly grasp operational data to help support short and long term operational / strategic business activities. You’ll develop, enhance, and maintain our databases, and ETLs. You’ll leverage SSIS daily to wrangle data into our environment from untapped enterprise databases. Effectively you’ll be a pseudo-DBA directly embedded within the engineering team. This is a role that if done well increases the effectiveness of our entire team! You will leverage AI tools including GitHub Copilot on daily basis for getting work done faster as well to automate the work. To succeed, you will be empowered to proactively and continuously refine our SQL server structure, permissions, schemas, custom objects, standards, as well as the content therein. We will look forward to you advising and executing on best practices based on your extensive history in the field. You will be responsible for routine monitoring of the health of our environment. Ideally, the individual who fills this role will become the go-to expert, overseer, advisor, and implementer of our SQL server ambitions; we want a best-in-class, meticulously maintained but fully pragmatic environment that can stand toe-to-to-toe with any other at UHG. We’re looking for that rare individual who can not only cast a vision but also deftly execute on it in such a way as to elate those that are supported by the fruit of this labor. We have been gifted with talents of understanding, manipulating, and conveying data in many forms. We aim for excellent quality and wise counsel. We genuinely serve our partners with capable means, a flexible approach, and a positive attitude. We offer our talents in our daily work as a service for others at this company which in turn provides for ourselves, our families, and our communities. You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in CS or IT related field
7+ years of SQL (CTEs, indexed temp tables, Stored Procedures, etc.) and SQL Server experience (server level, database level, securable, roles, grants, fragmentation, backups, schemas, sprocs, functions, etc.)
5+ years of SSIS experience (Event Handling, Project Level Connections, Containers, Job Scheduling using SQL Server Agent, Delayed Validation, etc.)
2+ years of .NET experience
2+ years of cloud experience with either Azure, AWS or GCP
1+ years of experience with AI tools including Github Copilot and Microsoft Copilot or similar
Ability to do On-Call/After hour support

Nice To Haves

1+ years of Terraform experience
1+ years of Azure Data Factory experience
Experience in business analysis, process improvement, workflow, benchmarking, or evaluation of business processes
Experience in Retrospective Risk Adjustment - Healthcare domain
Health care industry experience
Ability to work in a self-directed environment
Ability to work with less structured, more complex issues
Proven eye for detail and design sense
Demonstrated intermediate level of understanding of .NET (integration with SQL server, flow, expectations, advising, etc.)

Responsibilities

Generating ad-hoc reports for operations
Performing data analysis
Troubleshooting production issues. Supported clients: UHC, Medica, CareSource (onshore only), Centene, Elevance, etc. RADV
Support is time-sensitive and critical. Workload has increased significantly due to new CMS mandate resulting in a manifold rise in charts processed through RADV
The position will leverage AI tools extensively for code/query/script writing using Copilot
Resource must be onshore to access PHI/PII daily for support
Leverage AI tools to automate manual processes
Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows and decision-making.