Director Software Engineering - DataBricks, Spark, Azure , DevOps

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of Software Engineers to design, build and continuously improve platform service offerings.
• Drive & lead technical decisions, design discussions, review artifacts and complex implementations of the platform / services.
• Ensure Well-architected principles and engineering best practices are followed to build a secure, high-performing, resilient and scalable services.
• Effectively bring in the technical expertise to improve the system. Requires hands-on experience to optimize the implementation code, perform a proof-of-concept to prove, or redesign an existing solution.
• Provide technical leadership to the team. Mentor and guide engineering teams to adopt modern engineering practices and continuously raise the bar on engineering and operational standards.
• Able to communicate and co-ordinate effectively with stakeholders, Product, Sr. Leadership and enterprise users to achieve desired business outcomes
• Demonstrate strong ability to prioritize, plan and execute on the work to leverage the resources effectively and achieve the roadmap commitments.
• Ability to dive deep & be flexible to adopt to the changing needs of the platform, its users and the tech landscape in general.

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent experience

• Overall 15+ years of experience with a proven experience in dealing with complex implementations

• 2+ years of experience in any one of the Public Cloud Platform (Azure, GCP, AWS).

• Solid Experience (atleast 4 years) in data engineering technologies such as DataBricks, Spark, ADF et al.

• Experience with kubernetes, docker container services.

• Experience with DevOps engineering tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, etc.

• Experience in a fast paced, Agile, continuous integration environment

• Experience in Systems Monitoring, Alerting and Analytics

Preferred Requirements:

• Certification in a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Experience system design, building, and operating large scale & highly available system

• Experience in healthcare industry (Payor domain)

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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