Senior Data Engineering-Power BI, SQL
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 19, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026. UnitedHealth Group scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
Design, build, and maintain scalable data engineering solutions that support analytics, reporting, and modernization initiatives across enterprise platforms. Develop and optimize ETL / ELT pipelines, reusable datasets, and transformation logic using technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Oracle, and SQL. Support modernization of legacy reporting solutions by helping translate business logic from platforms such as Cognos into modern cloud-based data and reporting solutions. Partner with reporting and analytics teams to prepare curated, reporting-ready data assets for Power BI and related dashboarding solutions. Build and enhance AI-enabled analytics and reporting capabilities, including support for AI-driven summaries, natural-language data exploration, and AI-assisted dashboard or insight generation. Contribute to AI-focused solution development using platforms such as Databricks Genie, AI/BI capabilities, and related tools that improve productivity, insight generation, and analytics accessibility. Support development of semantic and metrics layer capabilities to improve consistency, governance, and reuse of business logic across analytics and reporting assets. Prepare and maintain technical artifacts such as metadata, data dictionaries, schema documentation, and supporting materials needed for governed data and AI solutions. Assist with environment-based delivery and operational support across development, test, and production environments, including deployment coordination, validation, and platform readiness activities. Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate reporting and analytics needs into scalable, production-aligned data and AI solutions.
Primary Responsibility:
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
Required Qualifications:
- Power BI experience
- Hands-on Databricks and Snowflake experience
- Production delivery and support experience
- Experience with the use of AI tools (Copilot, Claude, Codex)
- Advanced SQL and solid data-troubleshooting capabilities
- Proven solid data-validation skills
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership
- Proven solid production troubleshooting
- Proven clear communication with business partners, engineers, and product owners
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cognos experience
- Databricks Genie or AI/BI experience
- Python and Pyspark experience
- Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines
- Unity Catalog, metadata, lineage, and governed-data experience
- CI/CD, Git, and deployment automation experience
- Experience supporting financial, billing, payment, delinquency, or membership reporting
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.