Surest Senior Data Analyst

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Surest™, a UnitedHealthcare Company (formerly Bind), is reinventing health benefits to make health care easier to understand and more affordable. We combine innovative technology with a modern service model to give members and employers a simple, intuitive experience that puts them in control of their health care choices and costs. Backed by UnitedHealthcare, Surest offers the speed and culture of a start-up with the stability and scale of a large organization. Join us as we build a smarter health benefit and help reshape the future of health care.  

We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to play a key role in advancing the organization's analytics capabilities and scalability. This position is ideal for a highly experienced analytics professional with exceptional data fluency, strong technical expertise, and a demonstrated ability to query and synthesize large, complex healthcare datasets to solve meaningful business challenges. The role will focus on developing and delivering analytics through business intelligence tools powered by cloud-based data, supporting teams across Surest with actionable, high-quality insights. The successful candidate will bring deep experience working with data and will excel at partnering with stakeholders to translate business needs into thoughtful analytical approaches and effective solutions. Surest™ values individuals who are collaborative, intellectually curious, execution-oriented, and committed to excellence.

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:

• Lead the end-to-end development and governance of BI solutions, including Power BI dashboards, Looker reports, and automated Excel tools that accelerate speed to data
• Drive initiatives to improve data quality, reliability, and standardization across analytic processes and platforms
• Set the strategy for automation and novel analytics, reducing manual work and scaling repeatable, self service data solutions
• Oversee integration of diverse data sources-claims, provider, operational-into unified, high quality analytic datasets. Ensuring consistency and alignment across internal analytic outputs, including coordination with UHC/Optum reporting where applicable
• Partner with data science, engineering, and architecture teams to ensure BI capabilities remain performant and align with broader enterprise data strategy
• Communicate insights clearly and with executive presence, tailoring messages to both technical and non technical audiences
• Support preparation and delivery of health analytic deliverables, including regular and ad-hoc consultative/analytic support as defined by the internal and external stakeholders

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:

• 7+ years of advanced SQL experience, including expert-level ability to write highly optimized, complex queries; extensive hands on skill with multi table joins (inner/outer), nested subqueries, in line views, window functions, and sophisticated Common Table Expressions (CTEs); and a proven experience interrogating, transforming, and reviewing large-scale healthcare datasets with precision
• 7+ years of experience designing and developing data visualizations and dashboards, leveraging tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau, and other modern visualization frameworks to translate complex analytical outputs into intuitive, actionable insights
• 7+ years of experience translating business requirements into deployed analyses
• 3+ years of experience with healthcare claims (medical or pharmacy)
• 3+ years of experience leading and mentoring junior data analysts and analytics engineers, providing guidance on technical development, analytical best practices, and project execution
• Extensive experience in data governance and best practices
• Demonstrated record of high impact cross functional collaboration, with excellent communication skills enabling effective partnership with stakeholders at all organizational levels and across a wide range of technical expertise

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Databricks or Snowflake
• Advanced proficiency with Looker (LookML and derived tables)

*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.