Data Analyst

Data Analyst – Hybrid

We’re creating opportunities in every corner of the health care marketplace to improve lives while we’re building careers. And that means continuous career growth opportunities for you. While we support you with the latest tools, advanced training, and the combined strength of high caliber co-workers, you can continue following the path of your life’s best work.SM

Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernising 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.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work

About the role of a Data Analyst:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

As a critical member of our Analytics team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Are you ready to analyze data and deliver bold, business-savvy ideas to impact the lives of millions?

As a Data Analyst, you will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance, and maintain business intelligence tools that will have an impact on business decisions. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your keen data modelling and programming skills to support the creation of valuable solutions to improve the health care system. Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work

Primary Responsibilities of a Data Analyst:

• Working with SQL to design, build & maintain relational data models (Kimball Modeling)
• Working with SQL to design, build & maintain ETL & associated Stored Procedures
• Apply Data Quality techniques to clean data, monitor quality & performance
• Schedule data refreshes and monitor for quality & performance
• Analyze and transform reporting requirements into workable data model solutions

Required Qualifications of a Data Analyst:

• A minimum of 2 year’s proven experience working with a Relational Database Management System such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL
• Proficient in designing, developing, and optimizing SQL queries including ETL scripts and associated Stored Procedures
• High proficiency in Excel for ad hoc data analysis
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including provision of technical specification documentation, e.g., presenting a data model to the report team or building a data dictionary.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with MS Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Teams & OneNote

Preferred Qualifications of a Data Analyst:

• Experience with Cloud Data Platforms such as Snowflake and orchestration tools such as Databricks or Azure Data Factory
• Working knowledge of a market-leading Data Discovery tool such as Tableau or Power BI
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum team as a team member involved in Agile ceremonies
• Experience working in complex data architecture environments
• Experienced working in a large global and virtual corporate environment, in particular working closely with stakeholder teams in the USA

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work

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: 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.