Job Location: Minneapolis, MN
Careers at Solutran, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. We create direct spending solutions driven by our extensive financial tech experience to help those we serve be healthier, happier and more productive. Our platform helps members manage their health plans, supplemental benefits and rewards all in one place. You’ll have the opportunity to make it easier for consumers to manage their own health by making healthier products more affordable and their purchases streamlined. If you are a driven individual that thrives in fast-paced environments, values diversity and wants meaningful work that impacts the lives of many, then this is the team for you. Being part of an organization that makes healthier living easier for others leads to your life’s best work.(sm)
Combine Fintech and Healthcare, two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet, with a culture of performance, collaboration, and opportunity and this is what you get – leading edge technology that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about providing advanced, state-of-the-art payment solutions to help those we serve be healthier, happier, and more productive.
About Us:
Careers at Solutran®, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group®, offer a unique and exciting opportunity to create large-impact, market-leading payments, and financial technology innovations, while delivering on the mission of improving the health and wellbeing of tens of millions of Americans.
Our industry-leading S3®payments platform is integrated at 35,000+ retail locations and supports some of the largest benefits and rewards programs in the world by offering value to consumers and directing the spending of funds to approved health-enhancing products and services. This advanced technology has led to Solutran’s rapid ascent to market leadership in healthcare benefits and has broader applicability across numerous other industries.
Working within a FinTech powerhouse, Solutran team members enjoy a culture of performance and collaboration, along with the resources and technology of a Fortune 5 company that comes with being a part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. Our teams work in close partnership with the largest and most forward-thinking companies in America including Aetna, Anthem, CVS, General Mills, Kroger, UnitedHealthcare, Walmart, Walgreens and more. Learn more about our latest innovations at www.solutran.com.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Data Design and Management
- Applies engineering principles to create databases that optimize the ability to extract, store and manipulate data for consumption by other applications
- Develops and implements scripts for maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning of database
- Understands data structures and common methods to transform data for further analysis
- Uses modern tools and techniques
- Stays current with evolving technologies
- Designs scalable Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) packages
- Leverages automated processes to provide operational support
- Defines and builds enterprise-wide standard data models
- Normalizes and streamlines data across different domains/systems
- Designs, builds, tests, and adapts solutions to optimize environments and meet evolving needs of customers and business, leveraging and anticipating modern technologies, e.g., AI/ML, to support the transition to full stack proficiency
- Data Engineering
- Understands all the connected technology services and their impacts
- Assesses design and proposes options to ensure solution meets business needs in terms of security, scalability, reliability, and feasibility
- Collaborates with relevant stakeholders to achieve business outcomes
- Designs and builds services to allow them to be automated
- Identifies opportunities to use AI/ML technologies
- Technology Acumen
- Understanding of ETL and Data Warehousing technologies and expands that knowledgebase when necessary
- Understands what interdependencies exist and operates within them
- Stays current on trends within own domain and incorporates best practices into work
- Business Knowledge
- Demonstrates ability to build business value-focused solutions that enable actionable insights from data
- Finds new avenues for data to be used
- Recommends ways to improve data efficiency
- Incorporates business objectives when evaluating processes to remove redundancies and waste
- Data Security
- Understands and applies protocols, procedures, processes, and techniques to prevent the unauthorized access to and protection of systems and data and complies with applicable contractual, regulatory, statutory, and company policies
- Analytical Capabilities
- Sorts through large amounts of data to assess for relevancy
- Identifies applicable information to inform analyses
- Conducts thorough examination of relevant data
- Identifies and evaluates varying perspectives
- Interprets information and draws conclusions
- Data Quality
- Understands and incorporates quality principles to ensure optimal performance, impact, and experience
- Balances business impact, user experiences and performance in development of system designs and solutions
- Continually seeks opportunities to improve solutions, processes, and performance
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software, or computer engineering, applied math, physics, statistics, or a related field, but will consider experience in combination with alternative educational background
- 3 + years working with relational databases and developing automated pipelines to move, stage and clean datasets
- 5 + years of experience writing complex SQL (Oracle preferred) including queries, procedures, and packages
- 3 + years of experience working with ETL tools and confident writing scripts to automate data processing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Agile/Scrum environment experience
- PERL, C++, or Python experience Focus and attention to detail
- Flexibility; deals well with ambiguity
- Independent critical thinker who has a knack for complex problem-solving
- Solid business acumen
- Solid work ethic and commitment to constant improvement
- Solid interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills
- Enjoys inventing and being an active contributor on a collaborative, supportive team
- Leader and mentor to others; enjoys cross-training and helping others build confidence and skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfortable interacting with executive-level management
What are the reasons to consider working for UnitedHealth Group? Put it all together – competitive base pay, a full and comprehensive benefit program, performance rewards, and a management team who demonstrates their commitment to your success. Some of our offerings include:
- Paid Time Off which you start to accrue with your first pay period plus 8 Paid Holidays
- Medical Plan options along with participation in a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account
- Dental, Vision, Life& AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage
- 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Education Reimbursement
- Employee Discounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)
- More information can be downloaded at: http://uhg.hr/uhgbenefits
To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment
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.(sm)
Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $66,100 to $118,300. The salary range for Connecticut / Nevada residents is $72,800 to $129,900. 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.
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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