Senior Software Engineer - AI-Powered Analytics

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen analytics capabilities. You will lead development teams, design scalable software, and deploy AI-powered solutions.

Expect to build data pipelines with PySpark/SQL, advance CI/CD, and collaborate across engineering, QA, and architecture teams. You will work on data workflows, cloud-based platforms (Azure), and modern tech stacks, with opportunities to influence analytics strategy and platform sustainability.

Qualifications

• Software development experience.
• Experience with Python, Java/Scala, JSON, Web Services.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Experience with distributed systems technologies like Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Snowflake.
• Experience developing applications on at least one major cloud platform (Azure preferred).
• Preferred: Experience with Azure cloud services, including compute, networking, security, and resiliency concepts.
• Experience building PySpark data pipelines in Databricks.
• Hands-on IaC using Terraform and/or orchestration platforms such as AKS.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
• Healthcare experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members.
• Lead end-to-end software engineering activities, including requirements analysis, system design, development, testing, deployment, and application support.
• Design, develop, and deploy scalable, high-performance software applications and AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI.
• Build and optimize data workflows and pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL to process large-scale datasets efficiently.
• Research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks and patterns to build a sustainable Analytic platform.
• Advance DevOps practices by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring.
• Create prototypes, proof-of-concepts & design and code reviews.
• Collaborate with management, quality assurance, architecture, and other development teams.
• Write technical documentation and participate in production support.

Skills

Software development

Python

Java/Scala

JSON

Web Services

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Hadoop

Snowflake

Azure

Terraform

AKS

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Healthcare experience

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to strengthen analytics capabilities. You will lead development teams, design scalable software, and deploy AI-powered solutions.

Expect to build data pipelines with PySpark/SQL, advance CI/CD, and collaborate across engineering, QA, and architecture teams. You will work on data workflows, cloud-based platforms (Azure), and modern tech stacks, with opportunities to influence analytics strategy and platform sustainability.