Software Engineer
unitedhealthgroup
Job Description
- Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines (batch and/or streaming) with strong guarantees: idempotency, incremental processing/CDC, backfills, and schema evolution
- Model and publish well-defined datasets in a cloud data warehouse/lakehouse (dimensional modeling, partitioning/clustering, performance tuning)
- Build orchestration workflows (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect) with robust dependency management, retries, SLAs, and operational runbooks
- Establish data quality and testing practices (unit/integration tests for transformations, validation rules, anomaly detection, and data contract checks)
- Implement end-to-end observability (structured logging, metrics, lineage/metadata where available, alerting on freshness/volume/drift/failure modes)
- Partner with Analytics, Product, and Engineering to translate requirements into maintainable data products and clear dataset contracts/documentation (e.g., data dictionaries)
- Apply security and governance controls for sensitive data (PII/PHI), including least-privilege access, auditing, and retention policies
- Drive CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for data workloads (Git-based workflows, automated checks, environment promotion)
- Mentor engineers, review designs/code, and lead incident response and postmortems for data reliability issues
- 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 regards 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