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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Unitedhealth Group Inc
- **Location:** Eden Prairie, MN, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $134,600.0 - $230,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Client Server Models, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Dataspaces, File Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Cloud Services, Scala (Programming Language), Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Technical Debt, Data Lakes, Api Design, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E547D4FB6A8E4AC4BF8E6A28879DFA08/job/

## About the Role

* 8+ years of solid engineering fundamentals: system design, reliability, observability, automation, CI/CD, and secure SDLC practices
 * 5+ years in engineering leadership, mentoring engineers, including ownership of delivery and operations for production systems
 * 4+ years of Experience leading cloud-native and data-intensive platforms (ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, workflow engines, API-driven integrations)
 * 2+ years of Experience with components of the current stack used across the portfolio such as: Azure services and data ecosystem: Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake/Blob Storage, Service Bus, Snowflake
 * 1+ years experience driving AI enabled build and automation initiatives that delivered measurable improvements in team level engineering productivity, cycle time, and delivery quality
 * Demonstrated ability to partner with product and operations to deliver measurable outcomes (speed-to-market, quality, stability, cost), * Experience building or integrating with agentic tooling/automation concepts for operational transparency
 * Execution excellence: Proven to translate strategy into quarterly plans and delivers with predictable cadence
 * Operational rigor: Proven to set a high bar for reliability, incident prevention, and continuous improvement
 * Technical judgment: Proven to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health and scalability

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

## Description

* Delivering solutions and responsible for outcomes across data engineering, balancing feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and platform resilience
 * Own Architecture, design for key high stake projects
 * Provide clear technical and executional direction to drive predictability, quality, and accountability
 * Drive platform capabilities that expand automation for client implementations and improve transparency and traceability across file processing and data onboarding workflows
 * Ensure production stability, incident readiness, and SLA adherence for pipeline processing and client integrations through metrics driven operations and continuous improvement
 * Partner with cross functional teams to improve implementation efficiency, reduce client response times, and increase NPS through platform and process maturity
 * Guide technical direction for an end to end data engineering ecosystem leveraging cloud native services and modern patterns (e.g., Spark/Scala, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Delta Lake, Service Bus, Snowflake)
 * Lead modernization and scalability initiatives to support multiple pipeline patterns and enable platform agnostic analytics
 * Drive adoption of AI enabled engineering workflows to improve throughput, consistency, and operational effectiveness
 * Partner with teams to design and operationalize agentic solutions that securely connect models to enterprise tools and data using MCP client server patterns
 * Security, Privacy, and Data Governance
 * Ensure engineering practices meet enterprise security, privacy, and governance standards for sensitive healthcare data, with privacy by design embedded in delivery
 * Communicate status, risks, and mitigation plans clearly across stakeholders and collaborate closely with adjacent platforms and initiatives

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.


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