Data Engineer

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Design, develop, implement and run data solutions that improve data efficiency, reliability and quality; Design, develop, implement and run cross-domain, modular, optimized, flexible, scalable, secure, reliable and quality data solutions that transform data for meaningful analyses and reporting; Build processes to troubleshoot, maintain and optimize solutions and respond to customer and production issues; Maintain high quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security; Identify solutions to non-standard requests and problems. You'll work closely with business leaders to develop innovative analytic solutions, create actionable insights and drive better decisions and performance to help Broker and Employer Operations fulfill its mission.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop innovative analytic solutions, create actionable insights and drive better decisions and performance to help the business achieve its business objectives
• Support operational analytics, reporting and process improvement data deep dive, identify and execute on new opportunities for increases in efficiencies and performance
• Data transformation to support front-end reporting analytics, along with ability to understand and utilize ETL ‘back end’ data transformation, development, and configuration
• Analyze technical and domain related issues in live applications, support business queries and questions related to application output and business logic
• Data quality - develop QA processes; create validation and test scenarios and datasets; validate results against data sources and expected business trends; root cause analysis into why trends differ; test & QA data loading, ETL, and reporting processes
• Develop visionary and creative analytic solutions to measure business performance; identifies / quantifies drivers, risks and opportunities and defines solutions to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities
• Influences senior leadership to adopt new ideas, projects and / or approaches
  
  

Competencies

• Self-starter with solid influencing and facilitation skills that will quickly develop relationships across the organization while building a collaborative work environment
• Analytic thought leadership with skills in developing innovative and creative analytic solutions to complex problems
• Solid business acumen and critical thinking ability
• Solid problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate, identify and diagnose problems and make recommendations
• Candidate must be goal-directed, persistent and driven to achieve positive results
  
  

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with relational databases, including MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, IBM DB2, or MySQL
• 3+ years in reporting and analysis, data management, and reconciliation
• 3+ years of experience with ETL/Data Warehouse concepts, handling large volumes of data, and using ETL tools
• 2+ years of experience in data visualization, utilizing tools like Tableau or PowerBI
• 2+ years working with Cloud Technologies (Ie - Snowflake, Databricks)
• Proven solid ability to analyze and comprehend data within its business context, map or extend existing data models, and design new structures
• Proven track record of deriving successful business solutions from analysis and deep learning
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Healthcare data from an Employer/Broker perspective (Renewals and New Business from Proposals through the Installation process
• Experience in data process map, workflow, user acceptance testing, and database management
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
  
  

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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 marginalized 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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.