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About the Role

The Data Engineer makes data usable, trusted, secure, and repeatable by handling data discovery, access, pipelines, transformations, quality checks, retrieval layers, metadata, and data-product readiness. This role is crucial for enterprise AI transformation, bridging the gap between prototypes and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Identify required data sources, systems of record, reference data, documents, logs, and operational data.
• Assess data availability, quality, completeness, sensitivity, lineage, and access constraints.
• Build pipelines, transformations, data products, retrieval indexes, or semantic layers needed by the solution.
• Partner with AI Engineer on RAG, embeddings, vector stores, grounding strategies, and data refresh patterns.
• Partner with security, privacy, compliance, and data governance teams to ensure proper data handling.
• Create synthetic, masked, de-identified, or test datasets where needed.
• Build data quality checks, monitoring, lineage documentation, and exception-handling patterns.
• Support control-group testing and value measurement by ensuring baseline and treatment data are reliable.
• Prepare data assets and documentation for steady-state ownership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree OR 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering skills across pipelines, SQL, APIs, batch/streaming patterns, and cloud data platforms.
• 3+ years of experience with data modeling, data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance.
• 2+ years of experience with AI data patterns, including embeddings, vector databases, document chunking, semantic retrieval, and feature preparation.
• 2+ years of experience in understanding enterprise data security, privacy, access control, and compliance.
• Ability to move quickly while preserving trust and repeatability.

Skills

• Data Engineering
• Pipelines
• SQL
• APIs
• Batch/Streaming Patterns
• Cloud Data Platforms
• Data Modeling
• Data Quality
• Data Lineage
• Metadata
• Data Governance
• AI Data Patterns
• Embeddings
• Vector Databases
• Document Chunking
• Semantic Retrieval
• Feature Preparation
• Enterprise Data Security
• Data Privacy
• Access Control
• Compliance

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering skills
• 3+ years of experience with data modeling, data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance
• 2+ years of experience with AI data patterns
• 2+ years of experience in understanding enterprise data security, privacy, access control, and compliance

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $91,700 to $163,700 annually

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution

About the Company

• Optum is a global organization 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, and data 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.
• 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 a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.