Principal Data Analyst

Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

About the role:

As a Principal Data Analyst you will play a vital role within our Network Pricing Analytics Team. You will have the opportunity work to with data from across our RX business, giving a unique opportunity to generate insights from the performance of individual contract line items up to overall book of business margin opportunities. This is an individual contributor role that will work on challenging and business-critical work.

If you’re interested in healthcare and business analytics, this opportunity will give you the chance to do your life’s best work. ℠

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.

Responsibilities:

• Leading delivery of reporting & dashboarding projects from individual contract line items to global book of business views. Ensuring the delivery of robust, sustainable and scalable solutions while engaging with IT, boarder team and Senior Leadership
• Developing the required data pipelines to support our reporting and partnering with IT to push to production
• Lead the development of new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging customer requirements, including migration to MS Azure
• Direct analytics projects with segment-wide and/or enterprise-wide impact
• Influence senior management decisions that impact business direction
• Provides mentorship, support, training and guidance to 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:

• Significant experience in analytical roles (e.g. business analysis, data science, data analytics)
• Demonstrable experience leading or owning projects, with accountability of work for senior and/or management level team members
• Undergraduate degree in a numerical subject (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, or Economics)
• Technical experience in Python, SQL and MS Excel
• Data visualization experience
• Strong communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines
• The ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin office is required.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD in a heavily technical discipline
• Data visualization experience with Tableau or Power BI
• Experience with cloud environments such as MS Azure or AWS
• Experience working with transactional data in industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Banking or Telco
  

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.

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organisation around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.SM

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Keywords: # Data, Analytics, RX, Python, Tableau, Dashboard, Healthcare, Statistic