Lead Data Analyst

UnitedHealth Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group in Hyderabad seeks a senior AI/ML engineer to design and implement agentic AI workflows, build retrieval augmented generation pipelines, and deliver scalable data and cloud solutions. You will develop microservices and APIs to integrate agent capabilities into clinician tools and internal apps, and create prototypes to derisk delivery.

You will work with data, platform, and security teams to apply HIPAA-aligned practices, tune models for accuracy, and establish evaluation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of technology experience.
• 8+ years hands-on software development/data engineering with AI/ML delivery (Azure preferred) with Scala, Python, PySpark.
• 4+ years with Databricks.
• 4+ years with ADF/Airflow.
• 4+ years with big data & streaming (Hadoop, MapReduce/HDFS, Spark, Kafka); Docker/Kubernetes.
• 4+ years with MySQL and NoSQL databases.
• 4+ years with Agile/Scrum, GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD, JUnit;
• 2+ years with LLMs & GenAI (Langchain, LangGraph, RAG, Vector DB, Azure OpenAI).
• 2+ years of experience with container (Docker/Kubernetes).
• 1+ years with Proficiency building services or full stack apps (e.g., FastAPI/Flask, Node.js, React/Angular, TypeScript, HTML/CSS).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI workflows and multi-agentic systems.
• Build retrieval augmented generation and hybrid search pipelines for QA on clinical data.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs for clinician tools and internal apps.
• Create prototypes/POCs and conduct reviews to derisk delivery and raise quality.
• Leverage prompt engineering, grounding, guard rails, and domain adaptation for healthcare tasks.
• Establish evaluation frameworks for faithfulness, accuracy, and privacy.
• Partner with data engineering to build embeddings pipelines and ETL/ELT jobs on Spark/Databricks.

Skills

Python

Scala

PySpark

Databricks

Airflow

Docker/Kubernetes

LLMs & GenAI

LangChain/LangGraph

FastAPI/Flask

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, IT

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Kubernetes

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 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.

Primary Responsibilities

• Agentic AI Architecture & Delivery
  • Design and implement (multi)agentic workflows where LLMs plan, decompose tasks, invoke tools/APIs, and synthesize answers across heterogeneous data sources and services
  • Buildretrieval augmentedgeneration (RAG) and hybrid search pipelines to power robustquestion answeringover clinical and operational data
  • Design, code, test, document, and maintainhigh quality, scalable Big Data and cloud solutions
  • Develop scalable microservices and APIs for integrating agent capabilities into clinician tools and internal apps
  • Create prototypes/POCs and conduct design/code reviews to derisk delivery and raise engineering quality
• LLMs, GenAI & Model Adaptation
  • Leverage and adapt LLMs; perform prompt engineering, grounding,guard railing, and domain adaptation for healthcare terminology and tasks
  • Design intelligent frameworks and finetune models for compliance, accuracy, and ethical standards
  • Establish evaluation frameworks (automatic +human in the loop) to measure faithfulness, helpfulness, bias, toxicity, privacy leakage, and overall quality
• Data & Platform Engineering
  • Partner with data engineering to build feature/retrieval stores,embeddingspipelines, and ETL/ELT jobs on Spark/Databricks; design analytics models and rules engines
  • Define and develop APIs for integrations across the enterprise; improve data access patterns forlow latencyinference
• Delivery,MLOps& Reliability
  • OwnMLOps/LLMOps: CI/CD for models/prompts, automated tests (unit/contract/eval), versioning, lineage, rollback; enable blue/green or canary releases
  • Instrument SLOs/SLIs (latency, availability, hallucination/defect rate) and cost KPIs (tokens, GPU hours) with dashboards and alerts
  • Lead production deployments on internal platforms (e.g., UAIS) with solid observability, reliability, and cost controls
• Security, Privacy & Compliance
  • Champion HIPAA andregulated industrycontrols; integrate access controls, PHI/PPI safeguards, data minimization, encryption, and auditability
  • Collaborate with legal, compliance, and clinical safety to operationalize Responsible AI principles
• Product, Estimation & Collaboration
  • Analyze and define customer requirements; assist in defining product technical architecture and delivery roadmaps
  • Provide effort estimates and inputs for resource planning; collaborate with QA, architecture, and peer teams
  • Write technical documentation, support production, and mentor engineers, and keep skills current through continuous learning
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or relatedfields.
• 10+ years of total technology experience
• 8+ yearshands onsoftware development/data engineering/analytics with solid AI/ML delivery (Azure preferred) with Scala, Python,PySpark.
• 4+ yearshands onwith Databricks.
• 4+ years with ADF/Airflow (orchestration/scaling).
• 4+ years withbig data& streaming (Hadoop, MapReduce/HDFS, Spark, Kafka); Docker/Kubernetes.
• 4+ years with MySQL and NoSQL databases.
• 4+ years withAgile/Scrum, GitHub, Jenkins CI/CD, JUnit; solid coding standards and code reviews.
• 2+ years with LLMs & GenAI (Langchain,LangGraph,RAG,Vector DB, Azure OpenAI,MCPServer,Agents,LangFuse).
• 2+ years of experience with container (Docker/Kubernetes)
• 1+ years withProficiency building services orfull stackapps (e.g.,FastAPI/Flask, Node.js, React/Angular, TypeScript, HTML/CSS)


• Preferred Qualifications:

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.

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