Director Data Engineering Job in Optum

Position Overview

ECDH is a UHC Clinical Technology engagement with the Clinical Business team under the leadership of Mouli Venkatesan and Nagaraja Nayak. The team is focused on bridging gaps in care, enabling HEDIS reporting, and empowering care management by acquiring clinical data through multiple formats and diverse channels.

We are seeking a trusted partner at the Director level to provide technical leadership, influencing business and technology decisions, and driving the strategy to create scalable, secure, and efficient architectural solutions. The ideal candidate will bring industry context to technical decisions, simplify complex processes, and lead a team to build robust software solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner for technical leadership within the organization, working closely with senior leadership to guide technology decisions and strategies.
• Lead the architectural design of software systems, ensuring they are efficient, stable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Maintain exemplary coding practices, including code organization, clarity, error handling, and comprehensive documentation.
• Break down complex problems into clear, actionable solutions and drive the implementation of those solutions across teams.
• Lead design reviews for complex software projects and critical features, amplifying the impact through collaboration and shared understanding.
• Educate and mentor the engineering community on advanced technical issues, emerging technologies, and trends.
• Align teams towards a coherent architectural strategy while promoting innovation and excellence in engineering.
• Ensure that all technical decisions are compliant with industry regulations, including HIPAA, PHI, PII, and other contractual or locational data restrictions.
• Oversee the development of secure, high-performance, and scalable software systems in the public/private/hybrid cloud context.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify synergies, remove duplications, and drive continuous improvements in software solutions.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development, design, and implementation, with deep expertise in cloud technologies (particularly Azure).
• Extensive experience with metering, monitoring, and utilizing Azure Monitor & Application Insights.
• Strong understanding of technologies including Java, Cloud, Data Analysis, ETL, and Data Processing.
• In-depth knowledge of security threats and patterns, with a focus on regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA, PII).
• Proven ability to create and review cloud application design and deployment patterns for public/private/hybrid environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in modernizing legacy systems (Data Ingestion, ETL, Database) and transitioning them to the Public Cloud (Azure).
• Strong leadership experience working with teams at all levels, promoting collaboration and fostering a solution-oriented mindset.
• Expertise in designing and implementing end-to-end data solutions (storage, integration, processing, and visualization) in Azure.
• Proven experience in building streaming solutions using Kafka or Azure Stream Analytics.
• Ability to provide best practices for provisioning production and non-production environments on Azure, optimizing both usage and cost.
• Expertise in analyzing and proposing architectures that consider cost efficiency in Azure data infrastructure.
• Track record of mentoring team members through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and techniques, with experience implementing machine learning models in data engineering pipelines.
• Understanding of data science methods, including statistical analysis, data exploration, and visualization, facilitating collaboration with data scientists.

About UnitedHealth Group

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We are committed to addressing health disparities and improving health outcomes, particularly for people from historically marginalized communities and those with lower incomes. As an enterprise, we prioritize environmental sustainability and the delivery of equitable care. Join us to help drive positive change on a global scale.