Senior Cloud Data Engineer - Remote Data Modernization

Texas Health Institute; Eden Prairie, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum Advisory Services seeks a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to lead cloud-centric data modernization, ETL/ELT pipelines, and enterprise data warehouses. You will mentor engineers, design scalable data architectures, and collaborate with stakeholders across the healthcare analytics domain.

The role emphasizes hands-on development in Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, with a focus on secure, compliant data platforms and agile delivery within a matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing enterprise data warehouse and analytics solutions on prem and in cloud.
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud data engineering with Azure
• Experience with healthcare data analytics, data modernization and platform transformations.
• Strong CI/CD and DevOps experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with healthcare payer operations, HIPAA, data governance and data security.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for cloud data modernization initiatives.
• Review and modernize SSIS, SQL Server and ETL implementations.
• Design and implement cloud-native data solutions using Azure services and Snowflake/Databricks.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

Leadership

Agile

Data governance

Data security

CI/CD

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Snowflake

ADLS Gen2

SQL Server

Python

Spark/PySpark

GitHub Actions

Airflow

Job description

Optum Advisory Services seeks a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to lead cloud-centric data modernization, ETL/ELT pipelines, and enterprise data warehouses. You will mentor engineers, design scalable data architectures, and collaborate with stakeholders across the healthcare analytics domain.

The role emphasizes hands-on development in Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, with a focus on secure, compliant data platforms and agile delivery within a matrixed environment.