Data Consultant - Optum Advisory Board - Remote

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

At Advisory Board, part of Optum Insight, we've helped health care industry leaders work smarter and faster by providing provocative insights, data and analytics, and practical tools to support execution for over 40 years. Our core products include research and analytics membership, events, expert support, custom research, and sponsorship. Learn more about Advisory Board. The Quantitative Insights team powers the industry-leading data and analytics capabilities core to Advisory Board's value proposition. 

The Quantitative Insights Consultant is a people and process manager with deep healthcare data expertise. They manage a team of data analysts who update, improve, and resolve bugs in our analytical tools. The Consultant is accountable for on-time updates; building an improvement roadmap for a subset of tools based on internal and client feedback; partnering with data analysts, data scientists, engineers, and developers to implement improvements; and supporting analysts in bug resolution. They are both an individual contributor on high-priority projects and a manager who coaches and supports data analysts responsible for standard tool updates and issue resolution.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities: 

Maintenance, Innovation, and Delivery:

• Maintain prompt update cycle for key online data tools (supported by ETL data pipelines in AWS data suite)
• Identify opportunities for improvement in data product offerings, workflow management, and product delivery
• Partner with engineers and developers to build new analyses into scalable data pipelines
• Prototype new products and solutions
• Maintain familiarity with the state-of-the-art around big data analytics and associated technologies and techniques

Team management:

• Manage workload across team of 2-4 dedicated analysts
• Lead analyst skill development, technical proficiency, and data environment familiarity
• Backstop, troubleshoot, and lead QA of analyst analyses, pipelines, and deliverables

External support:

• Serve as a supporting voice for relevant client-facing intake and delivery conversations
• Lead timeline management to ensure timely delivery of results to clients
• Scope and project manage to ensure client needs are met efficiently, allowing scale of

You'll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in management and maintenance of big data systems (e.g. data schemas, ETL, data storage)
• 5+ years of experience in data manipulation, pipelining, and/or producing high-quality data deliverables
• 5+ years of experience writing, editing, and troubleshooting complex queries (SQL, Python/Pyspark)
• 3+ years of experience in exploration and analysis of new datasets, with summaries and insights
• 2+ years People Management experience
• Experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product management experience, preferably with a focus on producing data deliverables
• Experience in Redshift, S3, Glue, and other AWS applications
• Experience with client-facing conversations, preferably focused on data delivery and dataset/methodology overview
• Demonstrated depth of health care knowledge and expertise
• Proven understanding of health care claims data, including Medicare and commercial datasets
• Proven written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated team building and team culture skills 

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.