Senior AI Data Engineer (Clinical ETL) - Remote

UnitedHealth Group; Town of Wausau (WI); Remote; USD 73,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group and seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to join the clinical technology team as an ETL Developer.

You will design, code, test, deploy, and support end-to-end data integration for Clinical Datawarehouse and Reporting Platform systems, focusing on backend data processing and production reliability. The role emphasizes AI/ML tool adoption across the SDLC, robust data architectures, on-call support, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production operational support for high-availability enterprise systems.
• 4+ years of software engineering with SQL/Oracle and Unix scripting.
• 3+ years building/integrating AI/ML solutions, Snowflake, APIs.
• 3+ years of GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and DevOps.
• 3+ years of Kafka for event-driven/streaming architectures.
• 3+ years of data engineering with Snowflake and relational DBs.
• 2+ years with Apache Airflow and Tivoli Workload Scheduler.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements to design, develop, and deliver E2E software and data integration solutions for Clinical Datawarehouse systems.
• Provide production support to maintain system availability and performance.
• Drive adoption of AI tools through the SDLC for automated, robust pipelines.
• Design and deploy AI-powered data processing features to improve data quality.
• Provide on-call support and handle production issues within SLAs.
• Manage code reviews and migrations across deployment environments.

Skills

SQL & Oracle

Unix scripting

AIML solutions

GitHub & CI/CD

Kafka

Snowflake

Airflow

TWSd

RESTful APIs

Java/.NET/React

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group and seeks a Sr. Software Engineer to join the clinical technology team as an ETL Developer.

You will design, code, test, deploy, and support end-to-end data integration for Clinical Datawarehouse and Reporting Platform systems, focusing on backend data processing and production reliability. The role emphasizes AI/ML tool adoption across the SDLC, robust data architectures, on-call support, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.