Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)
Primary Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, fault-tolerant batch and real-time data ingestion pipelines, data transformation and data mining jobs
• Analysis and development of Cloud and Big data solutions
• Document technical applications, specifications, and enhancements
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, quality and efficiency
• Integrate the web application with NoSQL databases leveraging the existing Kafka platform
• Maintain production systems (Talend, Spark/Scala, Java microservices, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Elasticsearch)
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team
• Anticipate issues and act proactively to address potential issues
• Work with sometimes ambiguous / conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to provide functionality with the right amount of engineering
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders while defining solutions
• Lead engineers in making sound, sustainable, and practical technical decisions
• Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the core team
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to other software engineers
• Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment

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.
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field
• 4+ years of hands-on data engineering
• 2+ years of Java/J2EE/Python software development experience with Spring framework
• 2+ years of experience in Azure Cloud
• 2+ years of experience with Spark/Scala, Talend, or Python
• 2+ years of experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• 1+ years of Hands on experience on Databricks
• 1+ years of experience with NoSQL DB (Cassandra), ElasticSearch, Kafka, AVRO, GraphDB
• Hands-on experience on programming languages - Spark/Scala
• Experience with Github, Jenkins CI/CD, JUnit and Docker
• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Solid understanding of NoSQL and its data modeling

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience with open source technologies
• Experience in the health care industry
• DEVOPS experience
• Disciplined, engineering oriented mind set
• Excellent communication skills
• Aptitude for learning and be a great team player - strong track record
• Ability to develop and execute strategic plans

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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