Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid in Richmond, Canada

UnitedHealth Group; Richmond; Remote; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their dynamic team in Richmond, Canada. This role involves designing and maintaining data pipelines, optimizing data processes, and mentoring junior staff. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, particularly with Python and SQL, and a passion for improving healthcare through data and analytics. The position offers flexibility to telecommute and a competitive salary range.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in Python and SQL.
• Experience with Data Lake and Data Warehouse optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines for healthcare data.
• Optimize data processes for scalability.
• Mentor others and serve as a technical leader.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Engineering

Data Migration

Data Visualization

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

GitHub

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Job description

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 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 startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the role:

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we're on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams. The Stratus Imaging Analytics team is focused on building our Analytics solution for our Enterprise Imaging portfolio.

The team is based in mainly in Ireland, with some resource in Canada. The products have customers in Europe, Canada, and the United States. We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer that is focused on delivery of value to our customers, and who will also have a passion for innovation and improvement.

Are you someone who has passion on building solutions that will help enable improvement in healthcare through data and analytics?

If you reside in Richmond, Canada, you will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, to ingest, transform, and store healthcare data from various enterprise data sources
• Analyze raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as:
  • Data encryption
  • Data de-identification to ensure data security
  • Role-based data access
  • Automating manual processes
  • Optimizing data delivery
• Tuning and optimizing data processes for greater scalability, etc.
• Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes
• Code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions
• Define security and backup strategy for data solutions
• Build and implement batch and near real time data pipelines
• Help to ensure successful deployment of newly implemented data solutions
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a technical leader and mentor to others

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering
• 2+ years of experience in Python (Scala/Java)
• 2+ years of experience in SQL, including query optimization, performance tuning, and handling large datasets
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Data Lake, Data Warehouse optimization techniques, and Medallion Architecture
• 2+ years of experience with knowledge of job workflow and token management
• 2+ years of experience in data migration, cross-cloud integrations (AWS/Azure is a bonus), and cloud networking
• 1+ years of proven experience with GitHub and cloud environment tools
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in developing big data processes using big data tools – Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field or equivalent industry experience
• Healthcare industry knowledge and experience with exposure to EDI, HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR integration standards
• Previous experience in leading teams/people management and mentoring
• Data Visualization tools and technology experience
• Experience with Metadata management and Data Catalog management process, tools and technologies
• Experience with Spark in data processing and machine learning processes
• Hands-on experience with related/complementary open-source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Angular, Scala Linux, Apache, Unix)
• Experience with API technologies
• Professional GCP Data Engineer certification

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Canada Residents Only:The salary range for Canada residents is $75,600 to $157,100 per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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