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 Responsibilities:

• Research and adapt best practices – This role revolves around implementing the clinical domain knowledge and business intelligence skills to Risk adjustment domain with an aim of bringing down the overall healthcare cost
• Leverage UHG’s Big Data + Cloud infrastructure + AI capabilities to tackle problems across Optum Health operations
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and provide solutions
• Implement data integration pipelines to ingest, process and store large volumes of data from various sources
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security by implementing appropriate data governance practices. Support Data Governance activities
• Monitor and optimize the performance, scalability and cost effectiveness of the data platform. Own system upgrades and patch up exercises
• Open to adopt new tools, technologies, and methodologies to ensure that the team stays at the frontier of Analytics

• Coaching and mentoring of other team members and helping them in technical guidance and best practice

   

• 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:

• Bachelors / 4 year university degree
• 6+ years of experience with SQL , Snowflake, Python
• Data plus domain knowledge with around 3+ years of experience in US Health care domain, deep data analysis and machine learning
• Hands-on experience in cloud data platform engineering, on-prem big-data platform engineering
• Hands-on experience on SQL , Python
• Good knowledge around Descriptive Business Analytics techniques like Hypothesis testing, Clustering, Segmentation etc.
• Proven excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Professional, service oriented, proactive, and flexible
• Proven ability to work well both independently and within a team in a deadline driven environment
• Proven interpersonal, collaboration, diplomatic, influencing, planning and organizational skills
• Proven relationship management skills to partner and influence across organizational lines
• Proven ability to consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques

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.