Senior Data Engineer - AI-Powered Cloud Pipelines

UnitedHealth Group; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Medical plan

Dental/Vision/Life insurance

401(k) plan

Education reimbursement

Employee discounts

Employee assistance program

Referral bonus

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on data engineering to design and deploy enterprise-scale, AI-powered data solutions in an Azure cloud environment. You will build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark, Python, Scala, and Java, while ensuring responsible AI and robust data governance.

Responsibilities include optimizing data processing, evaluating new trends, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on architecture and CI/CD DevOps pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• 5+ years of SQL/T-SQL/ETL development experience.
• 3+ years building apps with Scala, Python, JSON and Web Services.
• 3+ years with distributed systems: Spark, Databricks, Hadoop or Snowflake.
• 2+ years Python development; 1+ years Azure/AWS cloud exposure.
• 1+ years of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• 1+ years shell scripting and automation tools.
• 1+ years AI/ML‑driven solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered data solutions.
• Streamline data workflows and automate data transformations.
• Evaluate new tech trends for data architectures.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Spark/Scala/Python/Java.
• Develop advanced SQL/T-SQL across cloud databases.
• Configure Azure SQL DB, Databricks, ADLS, and Data Factory.
• Develop CI/CD DevOps pipelines with PowerShell and Bash.
• Perform performance tuning and automated testing on big data platforms.

Skills

Software Eng

Data Eng

SQL/ETL

Python

Scala

Web Services

CI/CD

Shell scripting

AI/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Hadoop

Snowflake

Azure

AWS

PowerShell

Linux Bash

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on data engineering to design and deploy enterprise-scale, AI-powered data solutions in an Azure cloud environment. You will build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark, Python, Scala, and Java, while ensuring responsible AI and robust data governance.

Responsibilities include optimizing data processing, evaluating new trends, and collaborating with cross-functional teams on architecture and CI/CD DevOps pipelines.