Principal Software Application Engineer (Hybrid)

About Optum

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.

Position

Software Engineers working within the Optum Ireland R&D team supporting Optum Rx are developing cutting edge analytical products from one of the world’s richest healthcare dataset. You will be at the intersection of business, technology and data science.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be an independent thinker and advocate of data science methods and applications
• Research, develop and apply new innovative analytics methods and technologies from other domains to healthcare data
• The ability for critical thinking outside your immediate sphere of responsibility
• Work with autonomy and in partnership with other Data Scientists to find solutions to complex problems
• Leverage technical / analytical expertise across the enterprise to architect, deploy and oversee analytics and technology solutions
• Prototype new products and solutions that have the capability to transform the industry
• Ability to articulate and paint a vision, with strong communication and presentation skills, as well as strengths in translating highly complex concepts, results, models and technologies in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Be familiar with the state-of-the-art around big data analytics and associated technologies and techniques
• Have experience with Commercial environments and/or Products (not just internal focused)
• Be a leader for a variety of projects including proofs of concept, new product / component development, and reengineering initiatives among others 
• Work as part of a small team, sharing ideas and contributing to the strategic goals

Your qualification

• Undergraduate degree in engineering/computer/statistics
• Experience in a commercial software development environment
• Full Stack Python Web Developer with Flask, Django, SQL, ORM experience such as SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, basic CSS and basic Javascript

Will be a plus

• Masters degree pr PhD in a technical field (e.g. computer science, science, engineering, math / stats, physics etc.)
• Core knowledge of statistics, machine-learning and numerical / computational methods with experience in the application of these methods to business problems
• Angular, React, Javascript/TypescriptExperience working within a software development team and using version control systems such as Git 
• Experience of large-scale distributed computing environments (Hadoop, Hive, Databricks etc)
• Experience applying computational algorithms and statistical methods to structured and unstructured data

Additional details

A relocation package is discussed individually.