Job Description

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)

At Optum Technology, our passion for health care and technology empowers us and our partners to tackle real-world health problems. By applying our deep knowledge of an incredibly complex system, we identify and solve tough challenges without adding complexity. We are dedicated to harnessing the pace of innovation and applying our expertise to propel significant breakthroughs in health care technology.

Our team includes more than 30,000 technologists, 580+ distinguished and principal engineers and 2,600 talent development program (TDP) team members. Together, we work worldwide to manage health data for over 362 million consumers and provide health and information services to 1 in 5 Americans. #OPTUMTechnology #OPTUMRX

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be able to covert Business Requirements into Data Engineering Solutions
• Provide suggestions and best practice guidance for improving performance of Data Pipelines
• Contribute to automation and tooling programs to make daily troubleshooting efficient
• Demonstrate ownership and coordinate with engineering and escalation teams to achieve resolution of customer issues and requests
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 4 - 6 years of experience developing, testing, and sustaining Spark/Scala/Python based applications
• 2 - 3 years development experience on Databricks
• Experience troubleshooting issues related to "Distributed Big Data Computing" environment
• Experience with SQL-based database systems
• Cloud engineering experience with Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of JSON/XML & Rest API & Socket programming
• Knowledge of modules, go releaser etc.
• Good knowledge of at-least one frameworks
• Good knowledge of Data Structures
• Knows how to write effective unit tests
• Familiar with Design Patterns
• Familiarity with agile methodologies for enterprise SDLC across service development, security, deployment, maintenance, operations, monitoring, and updates
• Aware of Go coding standards & Solid principles
• Comfortable with black box troubleshooting
• Problem Solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Exposure to Kafka

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)