The Role
The Data Engineering Manager will oversee application architecture, lead design sessions, manage projects using Agile methodologies, and mentor teams while ensuring adherence to technology standards and practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2361275
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:
- Collaborates with cross functional IT areas, including UI & API Development, Infrastructure, Security and Database to define application architecture, strategies, and roadmaps
- Evaluate tools and technologies for future state architecture and evolving business requirements
- Sets enterprise application standard, architectural guidelines, technology policies and procedures
- Oversee development and integration of software and applications under development to identify and remedy potential problem areas and align with technical specifications
- Drive architectural initiative with business partners and customers
- Work with technical leads in scrum teams to provide technical guidance, communicate technical decisions, and mentor developers
- Partner with Operations, Application Development, QA, and Product teams to ensure a consistent technology strategy across teams and products
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies, create proof of concept projects
- Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices
- Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design
- Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed
- Responsible for overall systems design and architecture, including new solutions and patterns
- Train and mentor IT team, provide guidance to development team members
- 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:
- Bachelors / 4 year university degree
- 5+ years of experience with below mentioned Skills
- Techno - Functional Role
- Experience in automating deployments using CICD pipelines for prod and non-prod environments (Jenkins and GIT)
- Provide thought leadership, and end-to-end solution architecture & design of large-scale business Intelligence / data warehouse solution
- Participate in proposing, designing, and implementing solutions following the best practices of business intelligence / data warehouse solution architecture, standards, methodology and tools used. Develop standards for data governance programs
- Work with enterprise architects to create application design per business need and implement the architecture. She/he should have in-depth knowledge in user interface design and development along with API services
- Candidate should have experience in agile development methodologies and should be able to find the right balance between doing it now and doing it right
- Liaise with Data Architect to ensure architectural requirements like scalability, security, performance, reliability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity and archiving strategy are implemented within solutions
- Gather and fully understand the business requirements and translate the business requirements and conceptual model into technical requirements and communicates these to the Application Development and Infrastructure teams
- Understand, document, and/or create the application design including the data source mapping and collaborate with upstream/downstream applications
- Collaborate with teams and grooming individuals on new technologies
- Supporting them in debugging and resolving issues related to UI and API along with database
- Interact with stakeholders for proposing new tech stacks and presenting them with the benchmarking results
- Working with team in optimizing the code and to maintain code level standards
- Team / Project Management
- Lead projects completely without manager help, including high level client communication and
project planning - Manage all Scrum meetings and follow Agile methodology
- Need good experience with PM tools like Rally, Jira or others
- Resolve any challenges/ roadblocks the team is facing to meet project deadlines
- Perform code reviews, suggest improvements, perform efforts estimation, create delivery plans
- Participate in campus recruitment/lateral drives. Become an individual interviewer
- Organize a Hackathon or a Technical Event. Develop capabilities
- Lead projects completely without manager help, including high level client communication and
- Techno - Functional Role
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified in Azure Data Engineering (AZ-205)
- Technical lead for Data Engineering - Data pipelines, Data modelling and Data warehouse
- Experience of developing cloud-based API gateways
- Experience & exposure to API integration frameworks
- Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
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
- Bachelors / 4 year university degree
- 5+ years of experience in a techno-functional role
- Experience in automating deployments using CICD pipelines
- Experience with business intelligence / data warehouse solution architecture
- Experience in agile development methodologies
- Experience with project management tools like Rally, Jira
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple plan types with employer HSA contributions, in‑network preventive care at 100%, and included 24/7 virtual visits, alongside dental and vision options. This breadth allows predictable copay choices or tax‑advantaged HSA designs to fit different usage needs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with employer match eligibility and full vesting over time plus an Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a discount. Together these elements support long‑term savings and ownership.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include six weeks paid parental leave, paid caregiver leave, adoption assistance, and subsidized Bright Horizons back‑up care. Emotional well‑being resources like a premium Calm subscription and a 24/7 EAP complement these supports.
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The Company
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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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.
Typical time on-site:
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