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.

Network Data Solutions is serving the health care marketplace with the information tools and analytics solutions that will fuel change going forward.  We're well past "big data."  In fact, we're using "great data" to uncover new solutions and novel marketplace opportunities.  If you have passion for data, problem solving & innovation, and thrive on making an impact in an evolving market, we should be talking.  Join the expanding family of UnitedHealth Group companies and help shape history.  You'll help us improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work.  

The environment is aggressive, fast paced and innovative. We are looking for smart, innovative employees who will take ownership of their responsibilities, work collaboratively and always look for ways to add to the personal and professional growth of the company and their peers.

Our ideal candidate will combine pharmacy experience, experience with pharmacological terms, and an understanding of the management of healthcare data and data quality. This work requires experience with medication terminologies, use of metadata, knowledge representation and other basics of medical informatics.

The work also requires skills and knowledge required understanding and safely working with clinical terminology and the systems in and with which it is used.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical and analytic support to projects within Clinical Informatics team
• Perform target to source mapping of coded and un-coded data from customer's clinical (EMR's) and financial (claims) data to proprietary medication terminology system 
• Operate Optum's advanced terminology development tools 
• Participate in the implementation and use of clinical data quality systems and processes 
• Support product release work and scheduled updates including resolving mapping issues 
• Work closely with other clinical informatics specialists in knowledge representation areas 
• Develop and contribute to medication terminology related editorial policies/ mapping heuristics 
• Perform investigation of medication data issues, identify root cause and trouble shoot
• Be able to work creatively and flexibly, both independently and as part of a team 
• Desire and ability to learn new skills, systems, and processes
• 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:

• Pharmacy Technician with 2+ years of experience or Bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical science degree with work experience as pharmacy intern
• 1+ years of recent working experience as pharmacy technician or as a pharmacy intern in a hospital setting
• Experience with medication terminology
• Experience in mapping of medication data from source to target system 
• Competence with PCs and Windows Office applications
• Demonstrated ability to independently analyze and summarize medication data issues 
• Demonstrated desire and ability to learn new skills, systems and processes
• Good written and oral communication skills
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• PTCB Certified or eligible for certification
• Experience in healthcare information systems development
• Experience with pharmacy order entry system implementation
• Experience with med formulary or med dictionary management
• Experience working directly with software development professionals
• Experience with mixing IV products in a hospital setting
• Experience with industry standard medication terminology
• Basic experience with relational databases, such as MS access/Oracle/AWS/Azure
• Basic experience coding in Scala/Spark/SQL/Access or another data analysis language
• Basic experience with pharmacy data analysis
• Working knowledge of hospital pharmacy operations

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.