Senior Data Platform Engineer — Cloud & AI Pipelines

Optum; Minnetonka (MN); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase plan

401(k) contribution

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. You will lead ELT/ETL pipelines, craft data models, and partner with Analytics, Data Science, and Product teams to enable trustworthy, high-performing datasets and AI-enabled workflows.

This senior individual contributor role offers remote work across the U.S. with Minneapolis-area in-office days four days per week for local talent; nationwide flexibility is

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or data architecture.
• 5+ years building scalable ELT/ETL pipelines with Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark.
• 3+ years developing data models on Databricks or Snowflake.
• 3+ years cloud experience (GCP/Azure/AWS) incl. IAM and hybrid architectures.
• 3+ years CI/CD for data pipelines and IaC with Terraform.
• 3+ years batch and streaming processing for near-real-time use cases.
• 3+ years building ML data pipelines (feature engineering, training/inference, retraining).

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of cloud-based and hybrid data architectures.
• Build, optimize, and maintain scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark.
• Design and deploy AI-powered data engineering workflows with responsible AI practices.
• Develop ML pipelines with feature engineering, training, and inference data flows.
• Leverage AI tools to automate data tasks and improve platforms.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and security across pipelines.
• Collaborate with Analytics/BI, Data Science, and Product teams.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Spark/PySpark

Databricks

Snowflake

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

ML pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

GCP

Azure

AWS

Job description

Optum is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. You will lead ELT/ETL pipelines, craft data models, and partner with Analytics, Data Science, and Product teams to enable trustworthy, high-performing datasets and AI-enabled workflows.

This senior individual contributor role offers remote work across the U.S. with Minneapolis-area in-office days four days per week for local talent; nationwide flexibility is