Data Engineering Lead

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 to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines
• Develop IDM data integration solutions
• Implement data validation, cleansing, reconciliation, and governance frameworks to ensure accuracy and consistency of identity-related data
• Design and optimize data models, data lakes, and warehouse structures to support identity analytics, access reviews, compliance reporting, and audit requirements
• Design and implement solutions using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL, Spark, or equivalent cloud-native data platforms
• Optimize ETL/ELT processes, automate data workflows, and improve pipeline reliability, scalability, and monitoring
• Ensure data engineering solutions comply with security standards, privacy regulations, audit requirements, and enterprise IAM policies
• Work closely with IDM architects, security teams, application owners, and business stakeholders to define data requirements and deliver enterprise identity data solutions
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications:

• 7.5+ years of experience in Data Engineering
• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, or equivalent cloud platforms
• Hands on experience in Generative AI technologies including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Lang Chain, Agents, RAG, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering, and fine-tuning
• Experience with data governance, data quality, and metadata management frameworks
• Solid SQL, Python, PySpark, and ETL/ELT development experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Demonstrated great attention to detail
• Demonstrated organizational skills
• Demonstrated an analytical mind

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.