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 perks 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

• Design, build, and optimize scalable batch, streaming, and near-real-time data pipelines across cloud and enterprise data platforms
• Develop AI-ready data products with solid focus on data quality, lineage, metadata, governance, observability, and reusability
• Build semantic and knowledge layers that define business meaning, entity relationships, ontology structures, and reusable context for AI agents and applications
• Implement GenAI data patterns including embeddings,



vector search, semantic retrieval, RAG pipelines, hybrid search, and knowledge graph-based retrieval
• Work hands-on with Python, SQL, PySpark, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, and cloud-native data services
• Develop backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and data access layers using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or equivalent
• Integrate structured and unstructured data sources into governed, searchable, and AI-consumable data products
• Build data interfaces that support analytics, ML models, GenAI applications, AI agents, and enterprise workflows
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, applied scientists, platform engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into scalable technical solutions
• Ensure pipelines and data services are secure, reliable, observable, cost-efficient, and production-ready
• Apply CI/CD, testing, monitoring, logging, al

📌 Senior Data Engineering Lead (Gurugram)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Gurugram