Senior Data Engineer
unitedhealthgroup
Job Description
- Design, develop, and support scalable data engineering and AI-enabled application solutions using Apache Spark, Scala, and Python
- Build, optimize, and maintain high-performance batch and near real-time data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and analytics across large-scale datasets
- Develop and manage cloud-based data workflows on AWS, with hands-on use of services such as Amazon EMR, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda and Amazon OpenSearch
- Contribute to the design and deployment of AI agents and Generative AI solutions using platforms such as Google Gemini and AWS Bedrock
- Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures by integrating large language models with enterprise data sources, search capabilities, and knowledge repositories
- Work with modern AI integration standards and technologies, including MCP (Model Context Protocol) and related agentic AI frameworks
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, data science, platform engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable solutions
- Ensure application performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational excellence across data and AI systems
- Participate in technical design discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practice initiatives
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive measures
- Support automation, monitoring, deployment, and continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering lifecycle
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regard to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so