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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization 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:

• 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
• Work with Senior team members to develop new capabilities for the team
• Being Accountable
• Possess Achievable Drive
• Passionate about solution or product development
• 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+ years of university degree
• 2+ years of Experience with below mentioned Skills
• 2+ years of business experience in analytics, machine learning projects in Business Intelligence/Business Analysis space
• Experience of GenAI  with advanced artificial intelligence technologies and methodologies
• End to end experience in designing and deploying models and look out end to end productionize pipeline
• Good knowledge around Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics techniques like Hypothesis testing, Probability, Supervised & Unsupervised Learnings
• Good understanding of analytics tools: R, Python, SQL, Databricks & cloud technologies
• Deep understanding on Responsible use of AI
• Understanding on bias detection and mitigation strategy
• Processing and good to have fundamental understanding on Gen-AI & Large Language Models
• Proven solid problem-solving skills
• Proven excellent understanding of basic statistics and advance mathematics to analyze and understand data patterns
• Proven ability to learn and adapt to new data technologies
• Proven ability in slicing and dicing of data structures, Natural Language 
• Proven good problem-solving & communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified in Azure Cloud (AZ-900)
• Proven excellent time management & communication 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.