Principal 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 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.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist the development of reporting solutions to meet customer requirements and needs  
• Ensuring the delivery of robust, sustainable and scalable solutions, while engaging with IT and business partners  
• Work with our customers and stakeholders to understand their analytics needs and deliverables, act as consultant, to propose business solutions, product and services to drive change  
• Act as a subject matter expertise regarding Data and Analytics solutions  
• Produce meaningful, actionable reporting and visualization solutions and reports
• Understand data requirements from customers and provide recommendations
• Define data models and research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data  
• Produce analytical outputs, executive summaries and analytics templates
• Develop, test and QC data, reports and dashboards  
• Handle customer requests and proactive engage to prevent issues, capture new requirements and propose new solutions and business insights
• Improve existing data processes and proposing improvements and fixes to data, systems and SW 

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree Qualified (BA, BS) in a relevant field (IT/Computer sciences, SW development, Operations, Data Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Economics, Business) or equivalent experience 
• Proven data and analytics experience, including reporting and Business Intelligence roles
• Proven extensive experience in assessing and describing data sources and evaluating data quality  
• Demonstrated proficiency in analysing diverse and complex data, performing exploratory data analysis, producing descriptive statistics, and assessing Data Quality  
• Proven advanced data manipulation and data modelling skills and proficiency in at least SQL and Excel  
• Demonstrated very good knowledge of at least one data modelling, scripting or statistical language such as R or Python  
• Proven excellent data visualization skills and very good knowledge of Tableau SW or Power BI (or similar)  
• Proven excellent understanding of Analytics, Data Science, Databases and Cloud computing  
• Demonstrated very good understanding of IT systems, databases and other related technologies  
• Proven expert in Master Data Management solutions and best practices  
• Demonstrated knowledge of Application and SW development/implementation methodologies like Agile and Scrum, or similar  
• Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills, presentation skills  
• Demonstrated high proficiency in technical writing and technical documentation  
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills  
• Proven experience in creating new products and services, or deploying large scale tech solutions 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s, M.B.A., or PhD in a relevant field  
• Demonstrates solid business acumen and a customer facing mindset and/or relevant experience  
• Proven experience in pharmacy benefit management, pharmacy, healthcare consultancy or related fields  
• Proven experience working in a large multinational company or similar environment  
• Proven ability to operate flexibly in a rapidly changing work environment  
• Demonstrated solid organizational skills  
• Demonstrated knowledge of Project Management methodologies, like PRINCE2  
• Proven experience working in a customer success team, customer support operations, technical support, or customer service 

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.  

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.

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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.