Senior Data Analyst

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.

 

Primary Responsibility

We are seeking a highly skilled and self-motivated Data Migration Analyst with 7+ years of experience in Advanced SQL, Python and exposure to Peoplesoft ERP data structure system to join our team. This role is focused on supporting the migration of business data from legacy billing systems into the PeopleSoft ERP platform. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Advanced SQL and PeopleSoft ERP data structures, along with a strong understanding of data transformation, modeling, and automation practices. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and developing scalable ETL processes and ensuring operational excellence across performance, security, and manageability. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, a user-centric approach to solution design, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams. 

This candidate will be comfortable leading non-technical discussions with business users to gather the necessary data for a successful migration. Strong communication skills, business acumen, and confidence in data clean-up are crucial to succeed in this role. 

Key responsibilities include writing and testing migration procedures, building reusable data structures and algorithms, and actively contributing to the team’s technical growth by sharing insights on emerging technologies. The candidate should be comfortable working independently on routine tasks and be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Key Responsibilities and Skills:

–          Developing / Fully Proficient.

–          Experience with relational databases: Advanced SQL, Python, SSIS, GitHub, Azure DevOps.

–          Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft ERP (PS ERP) modules, integrations, and data structures.

–          Knowledge in data warehousing.

–          Familiarity with GitHub integration with Azure DevOps, Git Actions.

–          Works with minimal guidance or on routine issues/activities.

–          Experience in manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.

–          Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, data modeling, dependency, and workload management.

–          Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

–          Demonstrates an «automation first» mentality that improves quality and efficiency.

–          Strong analytics skills related to working with unstructured datasets.

–          Develops understanding of cost, complexity, and capability tradeoffs in underlying architectures.

–          Awareness of upstream and downstream system interactions and dependencies.

–          Reuses and/or develops for reuse code algorithms or data structures to address common needs.

–          Actively follows industry trends in technology, tools, and components, sharing finds with team members.

–          Participates in Agile and CI-CD practices; takes ownership of some processes or practices for the team.

–          Awareness of operational characteristics (e.g., security, performance, scalability, manageability) of solutions and accountability for supporting those requirements in contributed code.

–          Contributes to increasing team understanding of user perspective and values while advocating for user needs.

–          Understands what creates business or market impact and how design and delivery activities are related to that impact.

–          Participates in development of prototypes (mockups, models, simulations, functional capabilities) to support user engagement, interaction, and feedback.

–          Has knowledge of technologies & understands the technologies used by an engineering team.

–          Contributes to the identification/prioritization of solutions through analysis and discussions.

–          Understands regulatory environment, sales and digital experience, and channel.

–          Designs solutions within a single channel.

–          Knowledgeable about current security controls.

–          Identifies possible solutions and pros and cons to each.

–          Ability to use data-driven approaches to solve problems.

–          Adheres to quality control guidelines & practices.

Tracks, identifies, and promptly reports issues that may affect solution quality and brings forward improvement recommendations.

 

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.

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