Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
At United Health Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, engineering, data science, AI and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
About The Role:
As a Fortune 5 business, we're one of the world's leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you'll have or the challenges you'll encounter.
We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we're on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.
As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the development of complex data sources and pipelines into our data platform (i.e. Snowflake) along with other data applications (i.e. Azure, Terraform, etc.), automation and innovation.
This is a hybrid role based in Ireland. Your counterpart team is located in the United States, India and Ireland offices. While there is no requirement to work in shift hours, there might be an occasional call with US team which can require flexible working.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Create & maintain data pipelines using Azure & Snowflake as primary tools
• Create SQL Stored procs and Functions to perform complex transformations
• Understand data requirements and design optimal pipelines to fulfil the use-cases
• Creating logical & physical data models to ensure data integrity is maintained
• Code management, CI/CD pipeline creation & automation using Git Hub & GIT Actions
• Tuning and optimizing data processes
• Design and build best in class processes to clean and standardize data
• Code Deployments to production environment, troubleshoot production data issues
• Modelling of big volume datasets to maximize performance for our Business Intelligence & Data Science Team

Required Qualifications:

• Computer Science bachelor's degree or similar
• proven previous experience as a Hands-on Data engineer
• Excellent communication skills – Verbal and Written
• Excellent knowledge of SQL
• Excellent knowledge of Azure Services such as – Blobs, Functions, Azure Data Factory, Service Principal, Containers, Key Vault, etc.
• Excellent knowledge of Snowflake - Architecture, Features, Best practices
• Excellent knowledge of Data warehousing & BI Solutions
• Excellent Knowledge of change data capture (CDC), ETL, ELT, SCD etc.
• Hands on experience on the following technologies:

o Developing data pipelines in Azure & Snowflake
o Writing complex SQL queries
o Building ETL/ELT/data pipelines using SCD logic
o Query analysis and optimization

• Analytical and problem-solving experience applied to a Big Data datasets
• Data warehousing principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
• Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies and high performing team(s)
• Knowledge of different data modelling techniques such as Star Schema, Dimensional models, Data vault is an Advantage
• Experience in code lifecycle management and repositories such as GIT & Git Hub
• Exposure to Dev Ops methodology
• Good understanding of Access control and Data masking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience on Terraform, CI CD Pipelines and automation is an advantage
• Automation and orchestration using ADF
• Create real-time analytics pipelines using Snowpipe Streaming
• Experience developing optimized data models for Viz tool E.g. Tableau, Power BI is an Advantage
• Exposure and experience in other programming language such as Python, Spark etc. is an advantage
• Hands-on experience of CI CD Pipelines using GIT & GIT Actions
• Understanding of United States Healthcare data and applicable regulations

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the United Health Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
At United Health Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.


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