Associate Data Scientist

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative analytic solutions, create actionable insights, and drive better decisions and performance to help the business achieve its business objectives
• Support operational analytics, reporting and process improvement data deep dive, identify and execute on new opportunities for increases in efficiencies and performance
• Data transformation to support front-end reporting analytics, along with ability to understand and utilize ETL ‘back end’ data transformation, development, and configuration
• Analyze technical and domain related issues in live applications, support business queries and questions related to application output and business logic
• Data quality – develop QA processes; create validation and test scenarios and datasets; validate results against data sources and expected business trends; root cause analysis into why trends differ; test & QA data loading, ETL, and reporting processes
• Develop visionary and creative analytic solutions to measure business performance; identifies / quantifies drivers, risks and opportunities and defines solutions to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities
• Influences senior leadership to adopt new ideas, projects and / or approaches
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field 
• 3+ years of experience with relational databases such as MS SQL Server/Oracle/Teradata/IBM DB2/MySQL
• 3+ years of experience in reporting & analysis, data management & reconciliation
• 3+ years of experience with ETL/Data Warehouse concepts (ADF-Azure Data Factory); large volume data movement and ETL tools 
• Proven ability to analyze and understand data & its business context, to map or extend existing data models and/or design new structures
• Proven ability to demonstrate key successes on business solutions derived from analysis and deep learning
• Proven self-starter, solid influencing, and facilitation skills that will quickly develop relationships across the organization while building a collaborative work environment
• Proven analytic thought & skills in developing innovative and creative analytic solutions to complex problem
• Proven solid business acumen and critical thinking ability
• Proven solid problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate, identify and diagnose problems and make recommendations
• Proven goal-directed, persistent and driven to achieve positive results. Is positive influence on others and deals well with setbacks. Identifies integration issues, removes barriers, and tracks project status in order to obtain desired results 
• Proven detail orientation – getting “into the trenches” to evaluate all aspects of operations. Pivotal to success will be the ability to take a hands-on approach to getting the information needed and driving effective and lasting change
• Proven leader with Solid ability to develop relationships/influence across functional teams that work across multiple business units
• Serve as a Solid coach and will foster career development of team members

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years data visualization skills and experience using PowerBI
• 1+ years knowledge on Bigdata platform using Python, Pycharm, Scala, Pandas
• Experience with Agile framework, Data Warehousing Design, Cloud Technologies
• Experience with advanced analytical tools (Python / R / Tiger Graph)
• Experience with Healthcare Exchange / Marketplace / Medicaid / Medicare
• Experience in data process map, workflow, user acceptance testing, and database management

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.