Data Scientist 1

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.

As a leader within our Network Pricing team, you'll help with setting effective drug pricing within our provider networks to meet client and pharmacy contract guarantees through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis and reporting. As you do, you'll find that you can make a real impact while enjoying the resources, backing and opportunities that you'd expect from a Fortune 6 leader.

As a leader within our Network Pricing team, you will play a key role in analyzing and optimizing pricing strategies across our provider networks. By leveraging data insights and market trends, you'll develop innovative solutions to enhance member experience and drive improved financial performance. Your work will involve collaboration with stakeholders, managing pricing models, and supporting pricing operations to achieve measurable outcomes.

Ready for a challenge? You will need all your leadership skills and creativity as you manage and develop provider networks that achieve performance objectives. As a result, there is a high level of visibility and accountability for results.

You've been working your way to this opportunity for some time now. Now that you've learned to lead and build a deep analytics expertise, it is time to set your sights on having an impact in more ways. Join our leadership team and help UnitedHealth Group meet the challenge of shaping where health care will go.

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:

• Support analysis of pricing data to generate insights that inform business and pricing decisions
• Assist in gathering requirements from stakeholders and translating them into analytical tasks or reporting needs
• Help maintain and enhance existing pricing models under guidance from senior team members
• Perform data validation, testing, and basic troubleshooting of pricing models and outputs
• Prepare clear summaries, dashboards, or reports to communicate findings to technical and non technical audiences
• Identify inefficiencies in existing pricing workflows and support improvements or automation initiatives
• Work with senior analysts to help deploy updates to pricing tools or reports
• Track and report on network pricing metrics and KPIs to help measure performance
• Continuously learn the fundamentals of network pricing and the PBM business, sharing knowledge within the team

You will be rewarded and recognized 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:

• Proven experience in an analytical or data focused role (e.g. data analysis, business analysis, finance support)
• Demonstrated basic to intermediate SQL skills, with experience querying structured datasets
• Proven working knowledge of Python for data manipulation and analysis
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other MS Office tools
• Proven experience creating reports or dashboards using tools such as Tableau or Power BI
• Proven ability to manage tasks independently with support and guidance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in a numerical or analytical subject (e.g. Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics)
• Proven experience explaining analytical results to non technical audiences
• Demonstrated familiarity with cloud data tools or platforms (e.g. Azure, Databricks)
• Proven exposure to regulated or data intensive industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Banking, or Telco

Key Skill Attributes:

• Demonstrated solid analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Possesses a willingness to learn and take on increasingly complex tasks
• Demonstrated clear and professional communication skills
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within a team environment

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.  

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.


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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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