Senior Software Engineer - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

10h•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 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. The Provider Education (PE) product engages with providers to increase billing compliance and reduce medical costs. Our analytics team works with our business partners to support data ingestion, analytic processes identifying non-compliant billing submissions, and then identifying practitioners for education on proper claims submissions. Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activities across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product road maps. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. 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.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in Azure Cloud environment, including Azure Data Factory (ADF), Databricks, and orchestration tools
2+ years of experience developing with PySpark, Spark, and Python for big data processing
2+ years of experience in data analysis, data modeling, and ETL/ELT pipeline development
Solid proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases such as MySQL and Snowflake

Nice To Haves

Experience with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
Knowledge of healthcare compliance standards (HIPAA)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployment strategies
Proven exposure to AI/ML best practices for data engineering and automation
Proven unit testing for data pipelines using PyTest
Proven databricks expertise: cluster management, job optimization, and Delta Lake
Proven performance tuning for Spark jobs and distributed data pipelines

Responsibilities

Relevant analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery
Conduct data extraction that may include analyzing, reviewing, trending and presenting information, based on provided requirements, to support analytic development
Analyze healthcare claims from different data sources and identify the data integrity issues. Conduct analyses of data elements within existing source data mart schemas
Evaluating new cloud tools, new techniques, and strategies
Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions
Influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways
Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed. Work with less structure and on more complex issues
Serves as a resource/mentor for others