Hybrid Data Engineer — Real-Time Pipelines & Analytics

UnitedHealth Group; Ulster; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Ireland team is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and deploy automated data and ML pipelines. You will transform data with business logic, implement scalable Big Data solutions, and migrate legacy data to modern architectures.

The role emphasizes SQL proficiency, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), Spark/Databricks, Airflow, and containerized deployments. Hybrid work between Dublin/Letterkenny offices and home-based setup is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven data engineering experience in large-scale environments.
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and data warehousing.
• Experience with ETL and data pipelines.
• Experience with Spark/Databricks and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy automation for data engineering and ML pipelines.
• Code and transform data with business logic in collaboration with partners.
• Develop scalable Big Data solutions and maintain them.
• Analyze raw data sources and define data requirements for new software.
• Migrate data from legacy systems to modern architectures.
• Create conceptual data models and flowcharts.
• Define security and backup strategies for data platforms.
• Build real-time data pipelines and monitoring models.
• Produce technical documentation.

Skills

Extensive experience in Data Eng

Advanced SQL proficiency

Relational & non-relational databases

Agile/Scrum delivery

ETL design & data warehousing

Python programming

Tools

Hadoop

Snowflake

Redshift

Synapse

Spark

Databricks

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

Docker

dbt

Kafka

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Ireland team is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and deploy automated data and ML pipelines. You will transform data with business logic, implement scalable Big Data solutions, and migrate legacy data to modern architectures.

The role emphasizes SQL proficiency, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), Spark/Databricks, Airflow, and containerized deployments. Hybrid work between Dublin/Letterkenny offices and home-based setup is offered.