Sr. Data Engineer - Telecommute

Company: UnitedHealth Group
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: August 6, 2022

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)

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The -Sr. Data Engineer -is responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Analysts will partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles involved could include producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms. -

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You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

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Primary Responsibilities:

Build complex analytic applications using python that utilizes a spark distributed engine

Interact and consume internal and cloud APIs

Build new scalable and faulty tolerant applications on Kubernetes

Modernize existing processes for continuous delivery and DevOps within a well-established team

Work to empower our customers through design and building of end user self-service features

Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and infrastructure engineers to deliver against an agile roadmap of analytics initiatives

Optimize performance and scalability of analytics on modern platforms including Kubernetes, Functions as a Service and Azure public cloud

Build skills in reliability engineering, deployment planning, fault tolerant architecture, and test automation frameworks
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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:

3+ years of SQL programming in relational databases (in a professional or corporate environment)

2+ years of data programming in Python and Spark (in a professional or corporate environment)

1+ years of experience with GitHub

6+ months of exposure with cloud technologies (ideally MS Azure)

Experience working in an Agile development environment
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Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree

Azure certification

CI/CD experience, ideally Jenkins

Snowflake

Databricks

Delta Lake

Scala
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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

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