Sr. Healthcare SQL Developer - Oracle

$88,000 - $173,200/Yr

UnitedHealth Group - Eden Prairie, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Eden Prairie, MN

1-10 employees

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About the position

The Sr. Healthcare SQL Developer role at Optum involves developing complex data sources and pipelines primarily using Oracle, while collaborating with business analysts and subject matter experts to ensure accurate implementation of processes and calculations. This position is crucial for improving health outcomes through technology and data management, and it offers the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• All phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing
• Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Design reusable stored procedures, routines, and functions to perform complex transformations components
• Lead technology decisions, drive product implementation and delivery
• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and determine solutions as required
• Demonstrate substantial depth of knowledge and experience in Oracle PL/SQL, Unix, ETL tools
• Manage code in Git/GitHub
• Understand data requirements and design optimal pipelines to fulfill use-cases
• Understand logical & physical data models to ensure data integrity is maintained
• Tune and optimize data processes
• Oversee code deployments to production environment, troubleshoot production data issues
• Model large datasets to maximize performance for our Business Intelligence Team
• Provide accurate and timely estimates for tasks
• Conduct or facilitate root cause analysis on all in-scope incidents and recommend a corrective action plan
• Work with team to achieve timely resolution of all production issues meeting or exceeding Service Level Agreements
• Conduct code reviews to ensure the work delivered by the team is of high-quality standards
• Develop innovative approaches

Requirements

• 8+ years of data engineering work experience in development, design, test and implementation of complex database programs using Oracle and third-party tools within a distributed, service-based enterprise environment
• 8+ years of experience writing complex queries in Oracle PL/SQL
• Proficiency in database design, querying, optimization & troubleshooting with any of the following RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, and/or Teradata
• Demonstrated expertise in a variety of data warehousing and business intelligence concepts, practices, and procedures
• Solid experience with oracle functions, procedures, triggers, packages & performance tuning
• Analytical and problem-solving experience applied to large datasets
• Proven data warehousing principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
• Proven knowledge of different data modelling techniques such as Star Schema, Dimensional models, Data vault
• Experience in code lifecycle management and repositories such as GIT & GitHub

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with Airflow
• Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
• Experience working with Snowflake
• Experience developing optimized data models for Viz tool E.g. Tableau, and PowerBI
• Exposure and experience in other programming language such as Python, Spark, etc.
• Understanding of United States Healthcare data and applicable regulations
• Experience writing and executing functional specifications
• Experience working with and analyzing healthcare administrative, medical, or pharmacy claims data to support downstream applications, data marts, and end users
• Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
• Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution