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:
- Data & Platform Engineering:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines and data platforms in a cloud-native environment
- Own end-to-end development of data ingestion, processing, and transformation systems used by downstream services and applications
- Implement efficient data models and storage patterns in modern data warehouses and operational databases
- Production Systems & Applications:
- Develop and maintain production-grade backend services and applications that power data workflows and internal platforms
- Build and expose data services and APIs to enable secure, reliable access to data across engineering systems
- Ensure high availability, low latency, and resilience of data-driven applications running in production
- Workflow Orchestration & Reliability:
- Design and operate workflow orchestration frameworks to schedule, monitor, and manage complex data workloads
- Implement robust error handling, retries, monitoring, and alerting for all production pipelines and services
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues in live systems
- Cloud & DevOps Engineering:
- Deploy and operate data systems using cloud infrastructure, containers, and automated CI/CD pipelines
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code and automation best practices to ensure repeatable, reliable deployments
- Optimize cloud resources for performance, cost, and operational efficiency
- Engineering Excellence & Collaboration:
- Participate in system design reviews and contribute to architecture decisions for data and platform components
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices
- Mentor junior engineers and raise the overall engineering maturity of the team
- 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:
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines
- Experience working with large datasets in a cloud environment
- Solid understanding of data modeling and performance optimization
Technical Skills:
- Programming: Python, SQL
- Data Engineering: ETL/ELT concepts, data pipeline design
- Databases: Relational databases and data warehouses
- Workflow Orchestration: Airflow or similar tools
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- DevOps: Docker, Git, CI/CD fundamentals
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.
Skills Required
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines
- Experience working with large datasets in a cloud environment
- Solid understanding of data modeling and performance optimization
- Python
- SQL
- ETL/ELT concepts and data pipeline design
- Relational databases and data warehouses
- Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Docker
- Git
- CI/CD fundamentals
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues each pay period with eight paid U.S. holidays plus a floating holiday, and generous time away is consistently emphasized. This breadth supports planned and unplanned time off beyond standard vacation days.
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Parental & Family Support — Six weeks of paid parental leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, Bright Horizons back‑up care, and adoption assistance signal strong family-oriented support. EAP access with counseling sessions further extends help to employees and their households.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, Calm app membership, tuition reimbursement, commuter and FSA accounts, and broad employee discounts expand everyday wellbeing resources. Free or low‑cost virtual visits complement these lifestyle supports.
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What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Optum Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
