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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 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.\nAs a Senior Data Engineer at Optum Health Ireland, you will play a key role in optimizing the flow of consumer data and delivering actionable insights that empower members to make informed healthcare decisions and reduce costs. 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Your work will directly support Optum's mission to lower healthcare costs and help people live healthier lives.\nCareers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.\nWhat you will do:\n Data Pipeline Development: Contribute to the building and maintaining of ETL pipelines to ensure seamless data flow from diverse sources into centralized repositories (e.g., data lakes, data warehouses), while upholding data quality and integrity\nData Integration: Consolidate data from databases, APIs, streaming platforms, and external providers to create a unified foundation for analytics and reporting\nData Transformation & Processing: Clean, normalize, and aggregate complex datasets to prepare them for analysis, reporting, and machine learning applications\nFrameworks & Best Practices: Contribute to the development of reusable frameworks and enforce best practices in coding, deployment, and pipeline orchestration \nData Governance: Implement and adhere to governance protocols aligned with company standards to ensure compliance and data security \nMonitoring & Support: Proactively monitor data systems, develop alerting mechanisms, and resolve issues to maintain system reliability and data integrity\nYou will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.\nWhat you will bring:\nIf you don't meet every single requirement, don't let that hold you back - we're just as excited about potential as we are about qualifications and experience, and you could be exactly who we're looking for.\nProven depth of proven experience in building scalable data pipelines with solid software engineering principles\nProven solid background in data analysis and mining\nProven hands-on experience with cloud platforms and large-scale datasets\nDemonstrated proficiency in SQL and object-oriented/functional programming languages (e.g., Python, Scala, Java)\nDemonstrable familiarity with DevOps tools, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipeline development\nDemonstrated communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams and levels\nProven experience with Snowflake or Databricks\nDemonstrable success working with cloud technologies\nOther useful skills and experience include:\nProven experience with big data tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka\nDemonstrated proficiency in ETL/ELT tools and orchestration platforms (e.g., ADF, Airflow)\nProven exposure to ML engineering and real-time/batch data processing\nDemonstrated Cloud deployment experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP\nProven Agile/Scrum project experience\nDemonstrated Shell scripting expertise\nProven ability to navigate matrixed environments and work with both technical and business stakeholders\nProven solid delivery capabilities\nWhat We Offer:\nOpportunities for professional development \nInclusive and supportive team culture \nKey benefits: Private health insurance, wellness programs, matching pension contribution, lunch provided by the company, training opportunities, employee donations matching and others\nPlease note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.\nAt 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.\nDiversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. 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