Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, Healthcare Economics

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 Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, you will partner closely with key stakeholders to deliver industry leading data visualizations and dashboards as part of the Optum Health Ireland team.

This role will be critical in building and scaling new Business Intelligence capabilities that enable stakeholders to fully leverage enterprise data assets. Key responsibilities include the development of a cloud based central data repository, along with modern user interfaces and comprehensive BI reporting solutions that surface actionable insights.

The ideal candidate will bring solid stakeholder management expertise, a proven ability to translate complex data into clear, impactful visualizations, and a passion for exploring and implementing new tools and technologies to advance BI maturity.

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

What you will do:

• Work collaboratively with business partners, SMEs, and developers to ensure a shared understanding of business requirements
• Partner with cross-functional teams, refine requirements, and use it to shape product development efforts
• Development of dashboards and data visualizations that met or exceed stakeholder requirements
• Perform QA and testing of all dashboards and work with business owners to validate User Acceptance testing of work products
• Take ownership of all work assigned and manage tasks via Agile Scrum tools (Rally)
• Management of BI developers on the team, with hands-on support and development of data engineering and visualization efforts with team members
• Develop team members to constantly advance in soft-skill and technical areas

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.

What you will bring:

If you don't meet every single requirement, don't let that hold you back - we're just as excited about potential as we are about qualifications and experience, and you could be exactly who we're looking for.

• Demonstrated solid SQL experience
• Proven solid experience with data visualization and reporting tools such as Tableau 
• Demonstrated familiarity with data warehousing concepts and technologies such as ETL, data modelling, and OLAP
• Demonstrable solid analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to understand and interpret complex data sets
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills with ability to balance multiple priorities
• Proven experienced people manager of team of BI developers
• Proven solid project management skills and experience in leading BI projects
• Proven ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating good level of maturity

Other useful skills and experience include:

• Proven experience with Azure Cloud and Snowflake
• Proven experience with CI/CD frameworks for BI
• Proven experience with Agile development methodology
• Proven Healthcare / Pharmacy experience
• Demonstrable experience with Open source BI tools

What We Offer:

• Opportunities for professional development  
• Inclusive and supportive team culture  
• Key benefits: Private health insurance, wellness programs, matching pension contribution, lunch provided by the company, training opportunities, employee donations matching and others

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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