We are seeking a visionary and technically adept Senior Data Engineering Leader to architect, scale, and optimize our data infrastructure. This role will drive the design and implementation of robust, cost-efficient, and observable data pipelines that power analytics, AI/ML, and operational systems across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker who can influence senior leadership and lead high-performing engineering teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Data Pipeline Architecture: Design and implement scalable, high-performance data pipelines that support batch and real-time processing across diverse data domains
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Architect solutions with a focus on long-term sustainability, balancing performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Operational Observability: Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks to ensure system health, data quality, and SLA adherence
- CI/CD & Automation: Champion automated testing, deployment, and release processes using modern DevOps practices. Ensure robust version control and rollback strategies
- Blue-Green Deployments: Implement blue-green or canary deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk during releases
- Strategic Communication: Translate complex architectural decisions into business value. Confidently present and defend architectural choices to senior technology and business leaders
- Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
- 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 regard 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:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with data governance, privacy, and compliance frameworks
- Experience with AI/ML data pipelines and MLOps practices
- Experience in healthcare, finance, or any other regulated industries
- Deep expertise in data architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Solid command of data modeling, ETL/ELT, orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt), and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka)
- Demonstrated success in implementing observability frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Proven excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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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.
What We Do
We’re the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our global technology team consists of more than 30,000 innovators from around the world passionate about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care system through modern analytics, comprehensive clinical expertise, innovative technologies and extensive experience in improving operational and clinical performance.
As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.
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