Senior Data Engineer — Hybrid | Snowflake, Airflow & CI/CD

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Ireland to design and implement complex data pipelines. You will work with Snowflake, Airflow, Azure, and related technologies to deliver scalable data solutions for analytics and reporting.

The role involves collaborating with data, architecture, and business teams to ensure data quality and integrity while enabling advanced analytics and AI/ML initiatives in a hybrid Dublin/Letterkenny setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Hands-on experience as a Data Engineer.
• Strong SQL skills including window functions.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, data architecture, and data masking.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience building data pipelines with Snowflake and complex SQL.
• Experience CI/CD with Git and GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Integrate data from multiple on-prem and cloud sources to build a unified data foundation.
• Develop data transformation routines for cleaning, normalization, and aggregation.
• Implement data de-identification/data masking per company standards.
• Create monitoring tools to automate error handling and ensure data integrity.
• Use Great Expectations or Soda to ensure data quality across lifecycles.
• Build data pipelines with Airflow and Snowflake as primary tools.
• Design SQL stored procedures to fulfill use-cases.
• Create logical/physical data models to maintain data integrity.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Git/GitHub Actions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Airflow

Azure

CI/CD

Git & GitHub Actions

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Ireland to design and implement complex data pipelines. You will work with Snowflake, Airflow, Azure, and related technologies to deliver scalable data solutions for analytics and reporting.

The role involves collaborating with data, architecture, and business teams to ensure data quality and integrity while enabling advanced analytics and AI/ML initiatives in a hybrid Dublin/Letterkenny setup.