# Principal Data Engineer

Requisition Number: 2394715 Our Company 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, and data they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Position Summary The Enterprise Finance Data Engineering team is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (Principal Data Engineering) to design, build, and manage the foundational data architectures that power enterprise finance analytics, automation, and modern AI solutions. In this role, you will partner closely with finance stakeholders, AI engineers, and governance teams to deliver trusted, scalable, and secure data products that drive measurable business value. You will play a pivotal role in engineering high-impact data pipelines, semantic layers, retrieval indexes, and r

- **Id**: 3767872
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optum-principal-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Eden Prairie, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:45:46Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T02:45:46Z
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6867
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Health Care, Pharmacies, Health Data & Interoperability, Health Insurance & Benefits

## Company

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

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Alation** — Optional: yes
- **Collibra** — Optional: yes
- **Great Expectations** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:38:15Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T02:45:46Z

## Pay

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

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