Principal Data Analyst

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. 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.

As a Principal  Data Analyst at Optum, you’ll be responsible for working with key business and technical partners to develop industry-leading data solutions that provide insights and analytics that drive efficiency and value to clients.  

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 or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. 

Primary Responsibilities:

•    Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytics systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks
•    Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets
•    Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for datasets
•    Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization
•    Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data
•    Work directly with managers and users to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships
•    Engage with multiple stakeholders to specify data requirements for analysis projects tailored to their unique business processes
•    Design scripts and tools to automatically extract large volumes of data from data sources, improving efficiency and availability.
•    Employ statistical techniques to scrutinize data and produce actionable business insights

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:

•    Expert ETL, SQL and Python experience
•    Experience with cloud based technologies, data migration/automation and data engineering practices 
•    Exhibit exceptional analytical abilities to compile, structure, examine, and present substantial data sets with precision and thoroughness. 
•    Capable of critically evaluating data to derive meaningful, actionable insights.
•    Demonstrate superior communication and presentation capabilities, adept at simplifying complex data insights for audiences without a technical background.
•    A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics, or a comparable discipline with prior experience in data analysis or a related field being advantageous.
•    Strong project management skills and experience in leading data analysis projects and solutions 
•    Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating good level of maturity

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Cloud Technologies certification 
•    Experience with Data Modelling and Data engineering techniques 
•    Experience with Agile development methodology
•    Healthcare / Pharmacy experience

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.