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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Plymouth, MN
Plymouth, Minnesota

About this job

Optum Technology gives you the opportunity to showcase your passion and technical expertise, to transform health care, as we change the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology.  We are also the career home to Managers of Database Development and Operations who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day.  If you strive to help people live healthier lives by building your career with a leader in health care, this is the career for you!  Come share your expertise and your passion and do your life's best work.(sm)

 

As part of the Optum Enterprise Engineering Services team, you will be accountable for overseeing a team responsible for maintaining and enhancing a Tier 0, mission-critical system that is used for tracking every database and its server within UHG and Optum. Metrics are collected for every database every day. This information is used for generating cost-recovery (chargeback) data and also feeds many other systems, some of which are mission-critical request systems, such as ITG and the Enterprise Service Catalog.  In this hands-on leadership role, you will be overseeing a group of 4 employees.

 

In this role as Manager of Database Development and Operations, you will gain exposure across the enterprise working with many new  and different technologies. This role is based in our Plymouth, MN office.  There will be no travel.  This is a technical management role best suited for someone who either has former experience as a DBA or as a database developer.


Primary Responsibilities:


  • You will be responsible for day to day operations and tracking all projects across team members

  • Mentor and build skills of team members to enhance and continually improve product delivery and the client experience

  • Responsible for developing and maintaining policies and procedures that improve team operations and product delivery

  • Maintain and deliver on-going performance evaluation metrics

  • Provide weekly status reports for all projects in operation within the team

  • Accountable for developing and executing action plans to correct and improve project as well as personnel deficiencies

  • Responsible for the work flow of all projects

  • Interact with customers both internal and external to gather project requirements and act as liaison between customer and design team

  • Simultaneously lead several complex projects with varied, multiple deliverables, team members and audiences requiring ongoing prioritization and relationship management

  • Communicate job status information to all team members

  • Promote smooth workflow and communication between departments

  • Create and manage timelines for all projects

  • Ensure workflow progresses efficiently and projects/staff are organized as priorities shift

  • Maintain job tracking and time keeping database

  • Maintain and update project status report and run weekly status meetings

Requirements

Required Qualifications:



  • Bachelor's Degree  

  • 5+ years of experience working on databases, as a DBA or a Database Developer

  • 2+ years of experience managing projects using Agile

  • 1+ years of experience managing developers

  • 5+ years of experience developing data interfaces (ETL)

  • 5+ years of experience creating reports using SQL queries or other tools such as Crystal Reports, SSRS, Excel, etc.

  • 2+ years of Data Analysis experience (analyzing data and looking for trends and outliers)

Preferred Qualifications:



  • Operational management experience (uptime, upgrades, patching, SDLC)

  • Oracle and/or MS SQL database knowledge

  • Relational data modeling experience

  • Data validation experience - knowing various techniques for verifying data integrity using checksums, aggregates, comparison queries, etc.
    PL/SQL knowledge

 


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)

 


Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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.


 


 


 


Job Keywords: Plymouth, MN, Minnesota, DBA, Database, Developer, IT, Information Technology, Optum, analysis, ETL, SQL