Data Engineering Consultant

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and build in architecture, design and engineering of Data Ingestion, ETL. AI and Database to new technologies in the Public Cloud (Azure), Big Data and API Space
• Lead the technology transformation from our legacy Data and Analytic platforms to a Big Data Cloud based Modern Software paradigm. Be innovative in solution design and development to meet the needs of the business
• Understands security threats and patterns comprehensively and ensures adherence to all regulatory initiatives. HIPPA, PHI, PII, locational data restrictions, contractual etc.
• Contribute towards inner source to save significant $ savings and educate/encourage other teams across portfolios to use the inner source code in their products
• Create a common framework and repository for the development of Modern APIs available to the Optum Product Engineering Team
• Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices
• Create next generation streaming applications to use our Data as a strategic platform to grow the top line revenue
• Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry evaluating emerging software technologies
• Work collaboratively with all business areas to assess unmet/new business needs and solutions
• Encourage the growth of junior engineers on the team through skills development, mentoring and technical guidance
• Create a startup mentality to accelerate the introduction of new capabilities and transform teams
• Avid supporter of the Open Source software community
• Display a solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

Required Qualifications:

• Engineering graduate in Computer Science or equivalent stream
• 7+ years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms
• 2+ years of solid experience designing and building Enterprise Data
• 1+ years of experience developing AI solutions hosted in Azure
• Subject matter expert on Cloud, Databricks and AI technologies preferably Azuresolutions on cloud
• Experience in AI/ML will be preferred
• Experience with Data warehousing services on Azure
• Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
• Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement
• Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams
• Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills.