Senior Software Engineer

Improve the lives of others while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Job Description - Senior Software Engineer (2379038)

Senior Software Engineer - 2379038

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.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

• Develops services, controls, and reusable patterns that enable the team to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably in the public cloud
• Develop highly scalable applications for the Azure cloud by building microservices, Azure functions, and patterns for public cloud enabling security and privacy at scale
• Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
• Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification
• Gather and analyze data to aid in informed decision-making while providing detailed, realistic estimates
• Interact skillfully with business stakeholders and third-party technical organizations
• Design and develop ETL/ELT solutions on Azure Databricks, Lake Base and Spark
• Develop, implement, and deploy large scale data pipelines empowering machine learning algorithms, insights generation, business intelligence dashboards, reporting and new data products
• Design, build, optimize, and manage modern large-scale data pipelines ETL/ELT processing to support data integration for analytics, machine learning features and predictive modelling
• Write advanced / complex SQL with performance tuning and optimization
• Build AI based solutions for solving business needs, process automations and improving operational efficiency
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, data integrity, system efficiency and quality
• Participate in architectural evolution of data engineering patterns, frameworks, systems, and platforms including defining best practices and standards for managing data collections and integration
• Mentor other data engineers and provide technical direction by teaching other data engineers how to leverage cloud data platforms

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• 7 + years of experience in data engineering, data integration, data modeling, data architecture, and ETL/ELT processes to provide quality data and analytics solutions
• 7 + years of experience in Python, Scala
• 5 + years of experience in Apache Spark (PySpark/Spark SQL)
• 5+ years of experience in SQL with designing complex data schemas and query performance optimization
• 3+ years of experience with Dev Ops automation with Terraform
• 3+ years of experience with API design and lifecycle management (GraphQL, REST, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience building and deploying Cloud based solutions using - Azure Databricks with UC, Snowflake, Functions, Service Bus
• 3+ years of experience building LLM integrations for workflow automation/business needs

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
• Extensive knowledge of…