Hello Everyone,

Optum is hiring Data Engineer at Bangalore location who can join us on a short notice.

Primary Skills: Data Engineering, Python programming, SQL programming, Pyspark programming, Databricks, Azure / AWS / GCP, End to End Pipeline Build (Extract, Transform, Load), Basic Data Modeling, Health care domain exposure, GenAI Exposure

Experience: 6 yrs to 10 yrs

Notice Period: Immediate to 45 days

Location: Bangalore

NOTE: Healthcare Domain experience is highly preferred.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelines
- Build and optimize ETL/ELT workflows to process structured and unstructured data from multiple sources
- Analyze business and customer requirements and translate them into technical data solutions
- Identify and resolve non-standard data challenges and moderately complex engineering problems
- Develop and maintain data models, data quality frameworks, and validation processes
- Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, product teams, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted data assets
- Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Support cloud-based data platforms and data warehouse/lakehouse environments
- Implement data governance, security, lineage, and compliance standards across data assets
- Create technical documentation, design specifications, and operational procedures
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to junior engineers and team members




- Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices for development, testing, and deployment
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable solutions
- Contribute to automation, CI/CD processes, and continuous improvement initiatives across the data ecosystem

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or big data development
- Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines and working with large-scale datasets
- Experience with data warehouses, data lakes, and up-to-date data architectures
- Solid proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing and engineering
- Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
- Understanding of data modeling, data quality, and data governance principles
- Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision and handle multiple priorities

Preferred Qualifications:

- Cloud platform certifications in Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar cloud data technologies
- Experience supporting analytics, business intelligence, or AI/ML workloads
- Experience in healthcare, financial services, or other highly regulated industries
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Azure Data Factory, or Cloud Composer

📌 Data Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Optum
📍 Bengaluru