Sr Data Analyst – Remote

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. 
 

This is an exciting role in the growing Optum Health division within UnitedHealth Group. The ideal candidate is passionate about working with data and driven to deliver creative and compelling solutions and analytic results which turn data into actionable insights for our business. The prospective Senior Data Analyst will support the organization in identifying key trend components of the Optum Health clinical programs, key metrics for clinician documentation needs, statistical sampling, gap analysis, and assure data quality. 

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms. 
 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 
  
Primary Responsibilities: 

• Stratify varies clinical documentations systems to identify sampling size needs for clinical review and coding accuracy
• Develop process controls and reconciliation around file transfers and data involved in processes
• Support Optum Health documentation completeness by creating analytics to provide data driven decisions for outcomes
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of project scope, data extraction methodology, logic and design of data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical methods
• Works with less structured data, able to merge data from different sources and perform data scrubbing prior to analysis to show clinical outcomes highlighting program impact and value
• Use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data
• Able to write and understand SQL/SAS queries to leverage existing standardized calculations of metrics and perform in depth statistical analysis and interpret data
• Work effectively both as an individual analytic contributor and collaborator within the team

Job Scope:

• Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them
• Serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues
• Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions
• Performs complex conceptual analyses
• Reviews work performed by others and provides recommendations for improvement
• Forecasts and plans resource requirements
• Authorizes deviations from standards
• May lead functional or segment teams or projects
• Provides explanations and information to others on the most complex issues
• Motivates and inspires other team members
• Develops innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
   
    

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.