Senior Data Engineering Lead - Cloud Data Platforms Remote

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase & 401k

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Optum RAD team seeks a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to design, build, and scale data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data platforms that support analytics and AI/ML workloads.

This role combines hands-on engineering leadership with strategy, mentoring a team of data engineers, setting standards for governance and quality, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or data platform development.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL/Snowflake, Python, data modeling, ETL/ELT development, data integration, performance optimization, and data pipeline orchestration.
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience designing, building, and managing large-scale cloud-based data platforms using technologies such as Snowflake, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Data Lake, Databricks, and enterprise data warehousing solutions.
• 3+ years of experience implementing modern software development practices, including source control and CI/CD using GitHub, automated testing, code reviews, release management, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies within data engineering environments.
• 3+ years of experience in a people leadership or management role.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the data engineering roadmap, aligning platform, architecture, and data delivery priorities with business objectives while ensuring measurable outcomes and long-term scalability.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of data engineers and technical leads, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
• Direct the design, development, and support of scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, cloud-based data platforms, and data warehousing solutions to deliver trusted, high-quality data for analytics and operational reporting.
• Establish and enforce data governance standards, data quality controls, platform reliability practices, and operational processes to ensure secure, compliant, and dependable data assets across the organization.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analytics teams, architects, and product leaders to prioritize initiatives, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and translate business requirements into scalable data and analytics solutions.
• Partner with data science and AI/ML teams to establish reusable, governed data foundations that support model development, retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent automation, and production AI/ML workloads.

Skills

SQL/Snowflake

Python

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Data integration

Performance optimization

Data pipelines

Cloud data platforms

GitHub CI/CD

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Data Engineering/Analytics

Tools

Snowflake

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Optum RAD team seeks a Senior Manager of Data Engineering to design, build, and scale data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data platforms that support analytics and AI/ML workloads.

This role combines hands-on engineering leadership with strategy, mentoring a team of data engineers, setting standards for governance and quality, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.