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The Snowflake Database Engineer is responsible for maturing the Snowflake Datawarehouse environment within the clinical organization. The successful candidate will be part of SRE group ensuring the Datawarehouse environment in Snowflake is Production ready and ready to support Business critical applications.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado/Connecticut/Nevada residents is $94,500 to $171,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, .
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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The Snowflake Database Engineer is responsible for maturing the Snowflake Datawarehouse environment within the clinical organization. The successful candidate will be part of SRE group ensuring the Datawarehouse environment in Snowflake is Production ready and ready to support Business critical applications.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- You will be involved in design discussions with all Development and Engineering teams to provide insight on Snowflake
- You will take the lead in incident, change and problem management
- Provide engineering leadership and mentor Snowflake engineers on projects
- Creation and maintenance of warehouses, databases, roles and users
- Manage and properly size virtual warehouses
- Proactively monitor environment(s)
- Ensure proper security protocols across all environment(s)
- Provide support to development, data modeling and reporting teams
- Support deployments in Snowflake warehouses using CI/CD framework
- Part of SRE team and On Call rotation
- Coordination with project teams, DBAs, various other department resources
- Prepares project scope document, project plan and issues log for the implementation of a new database or complex enhancement to an existing database
- Develops and implements test plans that are comprehensive and inclusive of the problem to be resolved. Plans should include testing logic to produce successful and failed outcomes
- Consult on technical solutions that include design, high availability, data models and schema objects
- You'll also be expected to engage with Sr. Leadership, business partners, internal team members, and collaborators to drive initiatives supporting the organization’s most critical business priorities and initiatives
- SRE Evangelist influencing SRE principals with the team
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or advanced Degree in a related technical field
- 8+ years of experience in implementing Data warehousing solutions with 1+ years in Snowflake
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake utilities such as SnowSQL, SnowPipe, Python, Tasks, Streams, Time travel, Optimizer, Metadata Manager, data sharing, and stored procedures
- 1+ years of Azure Cloud experience
- Hands-on experience with user management, role-based access, and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Experience with virtual warehouses and sizing
- Understanding of Snowflake specific data types
- Experience optimizing the data load processes
- Experience with backup and recovery
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Ability to troubleshoot issues and outages as they occur, including after-hours and weekends
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
- CI/CD experience using Jenkins
- Adherence to healthcare industry compliance for database security configuration
- Experience on the Infrastructure Engineering
- Experience on Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible/Chef/Puppet)
- Experience on Docker and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
- Experience on DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins
- Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination prior to employment to ensure compliance
Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado/Connecticut/Nevada residents is $94,500 to $171,700. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, .
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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