Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start
Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities
- Data & Platform Engineering:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines and data platforms in a cloud-native workplace
- Own end-to-end development of data ingestion, processing, and transformation systems used by downstream services and applications
- Implement efficient data models and storage patterns in modern data warehouses and operational databases
- Production Systems & Applications:




- Develop and maintain production-grade backend services and applications that power data workflows and internal platforms
- Build and expose data services and APIs to enable secure, reliable access to data across engineering systems
- Ensure high availability, low latency, and resilience of data-driven applications running in production
- Workflow Orchestration & Reliability:
- Design and operate workflow orchestration frameworks to schedule, monitor, and manage complex data workloads
- Implement robust error handling, retries, monitoring, and alerting for all production pipelines and services
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues in live systems
- Cloud & DevOps Engineering:
- Deploy and operate data systems using cloud infrastructure, containers, and automated CI/CD pipelines
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code and automation best practices to ensure repeatable, reliable deployments
- Optimize cloud resources for p

📌 Data Engineering Consultant (Chennai)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Chennai