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Associate Director, Data Engineering – Dublin, Hybrid

Optum is a global organisation 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.

About the Role:

At UnitedHealth 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, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

As an Associate Director, Data Engineering, you will be collaborating cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams to understand their needs for data and create an extract that satisfies business requirements. The Associate Director, Data Engineering is essential for providing robust data solutions and contribute by creating data strategy plans. Working alongside the Consumer Analytics team, you’ll have the opportunity to help making decisions easier for members and helping members save on healthcare costs. In addition to having impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities of the Associate Director, Data Engineering:

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, to ingest, transform, and store healthcare data from various enterprise data sources

• Collaborate with clinical and operational teams to understand their data challenges and develop data-driven solutions

• Analyse raw data sources, data transformation, structural requirements for new software and application

• Build and implement data quality checks and ensure data integrity throughout the processing pipeline

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as: data encryption, data de-identification to ensure data security, role-based data access, automating manual processes, optimising data delivery and/or tuning and optimising data processes for greater scalability

• Design, build and implement automation processes for production release of data engineering, machine learning and business intelligence processes.

• Code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions

• Define security and backup strategy for data solutions

• Build and implement real time / near real time data pipelines

• Help to ensure successful deployment of newly implemented data solutions

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Associate Director, Data Engineering:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

• Extensive experience in SQL and object-oriented / object functional scripting language(s): Python, Scala, Java, etc.

• Proficient with Snowflake, Databricks and one or more cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)

• Proven experience with Airflow, GitHub actions, Azure cloud environment tools (Data Factory, Key Vault etc.)

• Hands on experience of developing big data processes using big data tools – such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.Data quality and data security process, tools and technologies knowledge

Preferred Qualifications of the Associate Director, Data Engineering:

• Previous experience in leading teams/people management and mentoring

• Healthcare industry knowledge with exposure to EDI, HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR integration standards

• Data virtualisation tools and technology experience

• Experience with metadata management and data catalog management process, tools and technologies

• Experience with Spark in data processing and machine learning processes.

• Hands-on experience with related/complementary open-source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Angular, Scala Linux, Apache, Unix)

• Experience with API technologies

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth 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. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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