Senior Data Analyst – Python Developer with SQL

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be able to elicit business needs and define requirements for reporting solutions which includes driving consensus across multiple stakeholders who often have different priorities and needs as well as providing guidance for business stakeholders as needed to clarify requirements and presentation, format and layout options for the information
• Support an iterative report development process and serve as a liaison between the BI developers and the business
• Build scalable, fault-tolerant batch and real-time data ingestion pipelines, data transformation and data mining jobs
• Analysis and development of Cloud and Big data solutions
• Assemble large, complex analytics relevant quality datasets from different source systems in the organization
• Work with different stakeholders to build data process automations for more efficient and reliable business processes
• Implement software components needed for better data platform governance
• Manage large scaled Data Repositories, including its maintenance, scheduled backups and enhancements
• Implement data and platform products to enable different users to carry out their tasks with ease and clarity
• Work collaboratively with different users and stakeholders to ensure their success with right technical solutions
• Perform different data warehousing activities like transformation, enrichment, dataset metadata management for the team to effectively use the platform
• Present analysis and interpretation of findings for operational and business review, planning and new product development
• Partner with BI and Report development resources to design and prototype innovative solutions
• Support end-users with answering questions, developing training materials and conducting training activities as needed
• Document technical applications, specifications, and enhancements
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, quality and efficiency
• Maintain production systems (Talend, Spark/Scala, Java microservices, Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, Elasticsearch)
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will increase team velocity
• Anticipate issues and act proactively to address potential issues
• Work with sometimes ambiguous / conceptual requirements and guide the technical team to provide functionality with the right amount of engineering
• Lead engineers in making sound, sustainable, and practical technical decisions
• Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the core team
  Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of hands-on Data Analyst
• 4+ years of experience with Python programing based development
• 4+ years of experience in relational databases (SQL Query, Stored Procedure. CTE, Triggers etc.)
• 4+ years of experience in Azure Cloud and Linux
• 2+ years of experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• 2+ years of Hands-on experience on Shell Scripting on Linux
• Experience with GitHub, Linux VM
• Experience with Visualization Tools like Power BI
• Demonstrated success in building design patterns and software engineering best practices

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Microsoft Power Platform (PowerApps, Power Automate and Power BI) experience or knowledge
• Microsoft SharePoint Lists and Forms experience or knowledge
• DEVOPS experience

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.