Senior Manager Data Engineering

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future. Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.  

As a Senior Manager, Data Engineering at Optum, you'll be responsible for working with key business and technical partners to develop industry-leading data solutions that provide insights and analytics that drive efficiency and value to clients.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with business partners (such as product, data science, platform, architecture, data steward), SMEs, developers to ensure a shared understanding of business and technical requirements and translating strategic objectives into clear delivery outcomes for OnePI/DOCC
• Lead, Coach and develop a distributed OnePI/DOCC data engineering team, setting clear ownership, delivery expectations, enabling execution while removing bottlenecks, and developing capability through mentoring and performance management
• Experience managing Agile delivery, backlog governance, and cross-team execution for globally distributed engineering teams balancing strategic priorities with operational commitments
• Drive end-to-end delivery and operational health of DOCC/One PI, ensuring production reliability, stable orchestration and establishing scalable engineering patterns that prevent recurring operational incidents
• Drive data quality, governance and operational standards in partnership with senior stakeholders to ensure trusted, lineage-aware and AI ready data assets aligned enterprise
• Demonstrate superior communication and presentation capabilities, adept at simplifying complex data insights for audiences without a technical background enabling senior stakeholders to make informed decisions

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading global data engineering delivery in cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure, enterprise data environments), driving execution, capability growth and team development
• Proven familiarity with CI/CD, Git workflows, Airflow orchestration, data modelling, ETL/ELT pipelines, medallion architecture and production data platform operations
• Demonstrated good interpersonal skills to engage and communicate effectively with ability to simplify complex concepts to executives, customers and audiences of different backgrounds within the organization
• Demonstrated application of delivery and operational excellence methodologies (e.g. PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Safe/LeSS Agile leadership
• Snowflake: Working proficiently in SQL skills to support data warehouse, performance optimisation and quality governance operations
• Demonstrated understanding of Co-pilot usage for use-cases, GenAI ready data platform designs including scalable data modelling, governance and retrieval architectures (RAG, LLM workflows etc.) to support enterprise AI adoption

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.  

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.