# Principal Data Engineering - Remote

Requisition Number: 2395658 Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The Principal Data Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and scaling enterprise data platforms and data pipelines. This role combines cloud-based data architecture ownership with hands-on technical execution across cloud and hybrid environments to support large-scale data, analytics, and machine learning initiatives. Working within Optum Technology, you will partner across engineering, BI, and product teams to ensure high data reliability, performance, and security. You will also leverage enterprise-approved AI tools and modern data platforms (Databricks, Sn

- **Id**: 3932377
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optum-principal-data-engineering-remote>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Minnetonka, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7248
- **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

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Great Expectations** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T02:39:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 77
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.819
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 2
- **Reasons**: seen:1, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T04:38:27Z

## Pay

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

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