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 Pipeline Development
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines
- Ingest data from databases, APIs, cloud platforms, files, and streaming sources
- Automate data movement and transformation processes.
Data Warehousing & Modeling - Design data models such as Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Data Marts
- Build and maintain enterprise data warehouses and data lakes
- Optimize storage, partitioning, and query performance
- Data Quality & Governance
- Implement data validation and quality checks
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness
- Apply governance, security, RBAC, encryption, and compliance standards
- Cloud Data Engineering
- Build solutions on Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Manage services such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ADLS, Synapse, Snowflake, and Spark
- Support cloud migrations and modernization initiatives
- Performance Optimization
- Tune SQL queries, Spark jobs, and pipelines
- Monitor batch and real-time workloads
- Resolve failures and ensure SLA adherence
- Collaboration & Requirements Gathering
- Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Data Scientists, and stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions
- Support testing, validation, and production deployments
- DevOps & Automation
- Implement CI/CD for data pipelines
- Use GitHub, Azure DevOps, and automation frameworks
- Maintain version control and deployment processes
- Reporting & Analytics Enablement
- Provide clean, trusted datasets for Power BI, Tableau, AI/ML models, and operational reporting
- Enable self-service analytics across the organization
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
Required Qualifications:
- Graduate degree or equivalent experience
- Proven experience in real-time + streaming pipelines
- Proven hands-on work in Databricks + Azure ecosystem
- Proven exposure to AI/agentic or LLM-based implementations and AI-DLC lifecycle
- Demonstrated work on enterprise-scale data platforms (not POCs only)
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
- Proven experience developing real-time and streaming data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Databricks and the Azure ecosystem
- Experience with AI, agentic, or LLM-based implementations and the AI-DLC lifecycle
- Experience working on enterprise-scale data platforms beyond proof-of-concept projects
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is generally described as decent or good, and many note it as a strong part of the package. Actual ability to take time off can depend on workload and team coverage.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer match and access to an employee stock purchase plan, which are highlighted as meaningful components of total rewards. These programs are consistently referenced among core benefits.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiver leave, along with adoption assistance, are publicly highlighted and viewed as notable elements of the package. Availability can be role-specific, but these supports contribute to overall breadth where offered.
Optum Insights
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.
