Data Architect

Optum 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. With a technology career at Optum, you have an amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve peoples' lives. We are a top notch health care company that is driven by the latest technology enabling us to significantly improve the quality of health care and improve the lives of tens of millions. This is a unique opportunity for you to make an impact by utilizing your technical expertise to help people live healthier lives. This is where you will work with the best and the brightest and together make positive change a reality. This where you will do your life's best work.SMIn this exciting role, Data Architect, you will work with state-of-the-art relational database technologies and be part of a team of highly skilled IT Data professionals working on mission critical applications and systems. As an Optum One Data Architect, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of all functions of relational database systems. You will be responsible for the following: database access, methods and time, device allocations, validation checks, organization, security, documentation, and statistical methodology. In this role you will monitor overall standards and procedures and assist in integrating various systems. You will also consult with users, determine requirements and recommend database establishment and utilization.Primary Responsibilities:

Work with the Data Architect Team to design new database patterns / structures to evolve the data warehouse to meet new and changing business requirements. 
Help maintain logical and physical data warehouse models to support the diverse range of data uses, including the creation and maintenance of ERD diagrams and other documentation.
Understand key attributes of available data sources and leverage these attributes to develop creative solutions
Partner with project teams and interact with customers to find solutions for projects and operational issues for existing and proposed data flows
Represent Data Architecture team interests in cross-functional project teams and coordinate Data Integration Development work within project scope with other internal data warehouse staff and other technical areas
Optimize existing processes for efficiency
Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them
Mentor both Data Management and other business users on the warehouse architecture and best practices in data usage.
Adhere to the system development life cycle and be responsible for time estimates for development efforts, and completion of deliverables within project timelines
Perform complex conceptual analyses
Serve as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues
Review work performed by others and provides recommendations for improvement
Forecast and plan resource requirements
Review the work of others
Serve as Subject Matter Expert

Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of relational database experience in a complex, enterprise environment
5+ years of experience writing SQL in a Data Warehouse / Data Mart environment
2+ years of experience with Oracle Preferred Qualifications:

Health care industry experience
Unix/Linux experience, specifically shell scripting and automation
Statistical Analysis or Data Quality assessment experience
Familiarity with Big Data technologies like Hadoop Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world?s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SMDiversity 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.