# Principal Data Engineer - Remote

Requisition Number: 2400247 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 in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together. As a Principal Data Engineer within the Optum Insight Engineering AI team, you will design and develop robust public cloud data systems, services, and reusable patterns that drive massive scale and performance. Our team's vision is to deliver secure, private, and highly scalable Azure cloud solutions that enable the organization to utilize clean, reliable data safely and swiftly. In this role, you will lead the creation of modern ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark workflows, and AI integrations. Working with adva

- **Id**: 3834837
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optum-principal-data-engineer-remote-2>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Eden Prairie, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7831
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Primary Care & Medical Centers, Pharmacies, Revenue Cycle & Medical Billing, Health Data & Interoperability

## Company

- **Id**: 20903
- **Name**: Optum
- **Domain**: optum.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/optum>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: CT
- **Utc offset min**: \-6
- **Utc offset max**: \-6

## Salary

- **Min**: 112700
- **Max**: 193200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 193200

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:38:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 78
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.83
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 2
- **Reasons**: seen:1, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 193200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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