Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist, Letterkenny or Dublin -Hybrid  

Optum is a global organisation 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.  

About the Role:

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.  

You will join a team of data scientists and data analysts who are responsible for building the pricing engine on our pricing platform.   We build the algorithms that find the optimal combination of prices to achieve multiple targets, given multiple constraints and uncertain future outcomes.  We are accountable to build pricing in one of the most complex areas of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world. We bring initiative, innovative thinking and curiosity to constantly evolve in a changing regulatory and competitive environment. The changes we make impacts the prices on over 150 million prescriptions in the US market annually. Our team culture is built on trust. We give our team the space they need to deliver results and the environment to ensure they can have fun doing it.  

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise and skills to develop new pricing logic and algorithms to get more pricing done through our pricing engine as your primary goal. In support of this goal you will be conducting research and analysis, prototyping solutions, advocating for best practice designs and collaborating with the team. 

Primary Responsibilities of the Data Scientist:

• Develop logic and algorithms in our Pricing Engine to optimize more pricing on our pricing platform
• Research methods and solutions, analyze data, prototype solutions and critically evaluate designs to optimize pricing
• Advocate for both technical and procedural changes and shepherd them through to delivery
• Ensure quality in design and coding outputs
• Collaborate with the team and partners to solve problems
• Work independently and with focus when needed
• Explore, analyze and interpret large datasets to identify patterns, trends and anomalies
• Maintain your knowledge of latest technologies and techniques relating to analytics and data science
• Work within the solution delivery methods and standards set out 

 You will be rewarded and recognised 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 of the Data Scientist: 

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, data science, computer science or a related field
• A high standard of programming experience with Python and SQL
• Experience with production system change delivery methods and techniques including experience working with the Agile delivery framework, deployment practices, version control and testing practices
• Experience with data analysis and problem solving
• Knowledge of best practices for optimization and prediction model development 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure analytics solutions
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and containerization
• Masters degree or PhD in a technical field (e.g. computer science, science, engineering, math, statistics, physics etc.) 

 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.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved. 

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