Director of Data Engineering
4 weeks ago
Director of Data Engineering & Reporting – Dublin or Letterkenny/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:
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 Director of Data Engineering, you will be the leader of the Data Engineering Capability in our Ireland office that is focused on developing a new, cutting-edge big-data platform and that will support advanced analytics and machine learning models to improve health outcomes for our members. You will be responsible for leading the team that is focused on the integration of multiple complex data sources into our data platform with a mix of different infrastructure (i.e. on-prem, cloud) and various data applications and tools (i.e. Spark, Hive, HBase, Airflow, etc.). You will be making critical decisions, focused on innovation; developing proofs of concepts that leverage data in new and exciting ways. Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for building high-performing data engineering teams? If yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel the mission of building modern healthcare analytics powered by the data.
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 or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Lead and mentor a talented team of data engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
• Work with business units in Unitedhealthcare’s affordability department to support advanced analytics & strategy teams data needs to help lower medical & pharmacy costs
• Collaborate with Data Science and Business Intelligence leaders to design and implement a secure, compliant, and scalable data infrastructure to support the organization’s growing date needs
• Build common frameworks and best practices in code development, deployment and automation/orchestration of data pipelines
• Identify, design, and champion process improvements throughout the processing lifecycle for:
• Data quality initiatives ensuring data integrity
• Data encryption
• Data de-identification to ensure data security
• Role-based data access
• Automating manual processes
• Optimizing data delivery
• Tuning and optimizing data processes for greater scalability, etc.
• Own and manage the deliverables assigned to the data engineering team, ensuring accurate, concise documentation of the code base including data ingestion an enrichment pipelines that support critical analytics, as well as production pipelines that feed into downstream systems
• Drive a performance-driven culture, setting clear goals and measuring results
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:
• MS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technology fields
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing data engineering teams
• Deep understanding of DevOps tools, Git workflow and building CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience in data engineering leadership roles, preferably within the healthcare industry
• Strong experience in data architecture, data modelling, data warehousing, and big data technologies (Snowflake, Scala, Spark, PySpark, etc.) as well as cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong leadership qualities, including strategic thinking, problem-solving, cross team collaboration
• A passion for innovation and a desire to make a significant impact on the healthcare industry
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technology related fields
• Healthcare industry knowledge and experience
• Data engineering certifications
• Data virtualization tools and technology experience with tools like such Python Dash, Tableau, R-shiny, etc
• Experience building statistical models using SAS or R
• ML and/or AI model development and deployment
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 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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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