Senior Data Scientist

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.

United Health Group is a leading health care company serving more than 85 million people worldwide. The organization is ranked 5th among Fortune 500 companies. UHG serves its customers through two different platforms – United Health Care (UHC) and Optum. UHC is responsible for providing healthcare coverage and benefits services, while Optum provides information and technology enabled health services.

India operations of UHG are aligned to Optum. The Optum Global Analytics Team, part of Optum, is involved in developing broad-based and targeted analytics solutions across different verticals for all lines of business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• End to end experience in designing and deploying models and look out end to end productionize pipeline
• Deep understanding on Responsible use of AI
• Understanding on bias detection and mitigation strategy
• Work on business analysis requests around different business problems
• Creating analytical findings for the internal clients of UHG as per specifications received from them using information in UHG Specific databases.
• Engage in client communications for all important functions including data understanding/exploration, strategizing solutions etc.
• Mentoring and Grooming Junior Data Scientists
• Lead and Drive Knowledge sharing session within the team
• Own the technical deliveries of the team
• Perform quality checks on the analysis and data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency before sending it across to the clients both internal and external
• Work with Senior team members to develop new capabilities for the team
• Looks forward to build and apply technical and functional skills
• Focuses on understanding Goals, Priorities and Plans
• Possess problem solving approach
• 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:

• Bachelors or 4-year university degree
• 7+ years of experience with below mentioned skills
  • 7+ years of business experience in analytics, machine learning projects in Business Intelligence or Business Analysis space
  • Good understanding of analytics tools: R, Python, SQL, Databricks and cloud technologies
  • Good knowledge around Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics techniques like Hypothesis testing, Probability, Supervised and Unsupervised Learnings
  • Proven solid problem-solving skills
  • Proven excellent understanding of basic statistics and advance mathematics to analyze and understand data patterns
  • Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to new data technologies
  • Demonstrated ability in slicing and dicing of data structures, Natural Language Processing and good to have fundamental understanding on Gen-AI and Large Language Models
  • Proven good problem-solving and communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability act in a strategic capacity as a senior technical expert for all current engagements
  • Demonstrated ability lead project independently & with minimal guidance, including high level client communication and scope planning
• Proven passionate about solution or product development
• Demonstrated ability to be accountable
• Demonstrated ability to possess achievable drive

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Certified in Azure Cloud (AZ-900)
• Good knowledge of Business intelligence tools like Tableau/Power BI, etc.
• Proven excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

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.