Sr Data Engineer Consultant - Remote

UnitedHealthcare is simplifying the health care experience and creating healthier communities. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer Consultant to design and maintain data pipelines, ensure data security, and mentor a team of engineers, while working remotely within the U.S.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms using advanced programming languages, and cloud data warehouses (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake)
• Develop resilient data architectures across data warehouses, lakes, and streaming environments to support enterprise analytics and reporting
• Ensure enterprise data security, governance, quality, and standardization across all data and analytics solutions
• Lead the end to end delivery of analytics data products, from design and development through production support and optimization
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering partners to enable business intelligence, advanced analytics, and machine learning solutions
• Mentor and guide a team of data engineers, driving best practices, technical excellence, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Solid expertise in Python and/or Scala/Java
• Advanced SQL skills for data manipulation and performance tuning
• Experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake or Kafka
• Exhaustive experience of working with Azure cloud services
• Designing, building, and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with data modeling, warehousing (e.g., Snowflake), and ETL/ELT best practices
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow), CI/CD, Git, and Linux
• Solid communication, collaboration, and the ability to mentor junior engineers
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy