Senior Data Analyst, E&I Affordability

Optum is a global organisation 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. 

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.

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Senior Data Analyst to join our team – United Healthcare E&I Affordability. In this role, you will lead data-driven initiatives, design and implement robust analytical solutions, and provide actionable insights to support strategic decision-making. You will collaborate cross-functionally with business stakeholders, data engineers, and product teams to translate complex data into clear business value. You will make a difference in the field of healthcare by making healthcare more affordable.

Schedule: Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.

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: 

• Learn the complexities of the US Healthcare system 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, ideation teams and data sciences teams to refine data requirement and roadmaps 
• Identify trends and opportunities for affordability through analysis of complex datasets 
• Validate data pipelines and provide design inputs to build scalable data and analytics processes and data flows 
• Build your own data pipeline when required 
• Build visualizations and deliver data insights to leadership 
• Leverage the power of AI to analyze complex datasets and feed predictive models 
• Build predictive models where necessary 
• Use API access to AI models and build robust software solutions

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: 

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in discipline with analytical focus (analytics, mathematics, statistics, engineering etc.) 
• Proven experience in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare or managed care setting
• Ability to build data visualizations in at least one data platform (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Ability to understand and explain complex data models
• Ability to write, understand and explain complex queries (SQL)
• Ability to transform big data (PySpark or Snowpark preferred)
• Ability to write efficient programs (Python preferred) and sound software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with at least one RDBMS (Snowflake preferred)
• Experience using and configuring version control and CI-CD processes (Git preferred)

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with machine learning or predictive modeling in healthcare
• Building real world AI powered applications
• Experience in data engineering
• Tuning queries for performance
• Experience building applications with Streamlit
• Experience with at least one data workflow orchestration tool (ADF or Airflow preferred)
• Experience with a cloud-based data analytics platform (Azure Databricks preferred)

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. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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