Big Data Lead Developer

UnitedHealth Group is the most diversified health care company in the United States and a leader worldwide in helping people live healthier lives and helping to make the health system work better for everyone.

* Provide hands - on leadership for the design and development of ETL data flows using Hadoop and Spark ECO system components * Lead the develop of large - scale, gh - speed, and low - latency data solutions in the areas of large scale data manipulation, long - term data storage, data warehousing, Low - latency retrieval systems, real - time reporting and analytics Data applications - visualization, BI, dashboards, adhoc analytics * Rapidly architect, design, prototype, and implement architectures to tackle the Big Data solutions * Work in cross - disciplinary teams with our company experts to understand client needs and ingest rich data sources * Research, experiment, and utilize leading Big Data methodologies such as Hadoop, Spark etc. * Architect, implement and test data processing pipelines on a variety of Hadoop hosted clusters * Design & implement work flow jobs using Talend & Unix / Linux scripting to perform ETL on Hadoop platform * Design, develop and implement ETL data flows jobs using Hive / Pig or Java Map / Reduce * Ingesting data into Hadoop layer using various big data technologies (eg. Pig, Hive, Map / Reduce) * Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design * Perform analysis of data sets and uncover insights * Maintain security and data privacy * Propose best practices / standards * Work with the System Analyst and development manager on a day - to - day basis * Work with other team members to accomplish key development tasks * Work with service delivery (support) team on transition and stabilization * Design and develop optimal solutions for the implementation, maintenance and monitoring of all components of software * Responsible for integrating all development with the architecture used across the company * Help shape and augment team’s continuous delivery capabilities and utilize DevOps best practices to improve delivery automation, collaboration, and efficiency * Working with the team on a day - to - day basis and guiding them for the development and doing Code reviews etc.

**Required Qualifications:** * 8+ years of hands - on experience in designing, leading, & developing enterprise application solution for distributed systems * 5+ years of hands - on experience with Java OR Python OR ETL tools as a developer * 3+ years Big Data development experience * Understanding of database internals and data warehouse implementation techniques; working knowledge of SQL * Solid understanding of data structures & common algorithms * Understanding of time - complexity of algorithms **Preferred Qualifications:** * Experience with HBase, Talend , NoSQL databases * Experience Apache Spark or other streaming big data processing * Experience in Hadoop ECO System * Strong experience in Java and PIG * Experience with Python & Scala * Experience loading from disparate data sets * Pre-processing experience using Hive / Pig / Python / Unix scripting * Experience in Linux, XML, JSON, REST * Experience with UNIX and Shell scripting * Hands - on experience with Hadoop, Map / Reduce, Hive, HBase & Pig * Ability to write Pig Latin Scripts * Hands - on experience writing Hive QL and tuning Hive QL * Knowledge of workflow / schedulers like Oozie * Previous experience with Healthcare industry * Able to work well in extremely fast paced and entrepreneurial environments Independent self-starter who is highly focused and results oriented * Strong analytical and problem solving skills