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 advantages 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.

Position in this function owns the technical architecture, engineering standards, and technology roadmap for a secure, scalable healthcare data platform. The role sets direction for data ingestion, lakehouse design, interoperability, governance, privacy, and analytics across AWS/Azure and Databricks.

Primary Responsibilities:
Define target-state architecture for data ingestion, object storage, lakehouse processing, data products, analytics, and operational reporting




Establish AWS/ Azure and Databricks reference architectures using Amazon S3, ECS/EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, Databricks Workflows, Unity Catalog, Auto Loader, Delta Lake, and Databricks SQL
Design medallion/lakehouse patterns for raw, curated, and consumption layers, including tenant isolation, schema evolution, incremental processing, replay, lineage, and retention
Define open-table-format strategy across Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, including catalog integration, interoperability, ACID guarantees, schema/partition evolution, and multi-engine access
Set standards for Spark/PySpark, SQL, Python, data quality, observability, metadata management, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and disaster recovery
Define scalable ingestion patterns for APIs, relational databases, files, events, FHIR, HL7, XML, JSON/NDJSON, documents, and unstructured data
Lead data governance and security architecture: PHI classification, HIPAA-al

📌 Principal Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 UnitedHealth Group
📍 Hyderabad