Senior Data Analyst – Pyspark, Azure Databricks, Scala

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.

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. Depending on the specific role and business line, example responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Roles in this function could partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles involved could include producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. 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. This function is not intended for employees performing the following work: production of standard or self-service operational reporting, casual inference led (healthcare analytics) or data pattern recognition (data science) analysis; and/or image or unstructured data analysis using sophisticated theoretical frameworks. Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements & functional specifications
• Be able to determine the impact of changes in current functionality of the system
• Be able to handle SAS Algo dev assignments independently, end-to-end SDLC
• Interaction with diverse Business Partners and Technical Workgroups
• Drive Algo optimization and innovation in the team
• Be able to be flexible to collaborate with onshore business, during US business hours
• Be able to be flexible to support project releases, during US business hours
• Adherence to the defined delivery process/guidelines
• Drive project quality process compliance
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of working experience in Python, Pyspark, Scala
• 5+ years working experience in Azure Databricks
• 3+ years of experience working on MS SQL Server and NoSQL DBs like Cassandra, etc.
• Hands-on experience in the Streaming application (Kafka, Spark Streaming, etc.)
• Solid healthcare domain knowledge 
• Exposure to following DevOps methodology and creating CI/CD deployment pipeline
• Exposure to following Agile methodology specifically using tools like Rally
• Proven ability to understand the existing application codebase, perform impact analysis and update the code when required based on the business logic or for optimization
• Proven excellent analytical and communication skills (Both Verbal and Written)

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.