Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses focused on improving healthcare services. The Data Analyst role involves analyzing large datasets to support strategic decisions, developing recommendations, and ensuring data quality while working with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software
- Perform analysis on large data sets across multiple lines of services and healthcare markets to support strategic decisions and deliver value to the business unit
- Interpret data and develop recommendations and courses of action through discussions with internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure data requirements are met during the intake process and identify solutions to resolve issues
- Evaluate business performance and monitor, track, and report key performance indicators
- Document processes and identify areas for process improvement
- Require an individual to maintain the ability to work in an environment with PHI / PII data
Skills
- Master's degree in Business Analytics or related field and completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, or thesis or one year of experience in the job offered or a related analytical occupation
- Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling, and Data Visualization such as Matplotlib or Tableau
- Data Ingestion using tools like Salesforce and AWS s3
- Business Analysis
- SQL programming
- Python programming with modules such as Pandas, sklearn, or boto3
- Work with clients to plan data workflows, perform QC, perform analytics, share insights and actionable strategies from complex disjointed data sources
- Data and business processes related to targeting analytics, risk adjustment, and chart retrieval and coding
- Research and developing innovative analytics to generate value
- Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets
- Monitor data quality, validating data pipelines and providing design inputs to build scalable data and analytics processes/data flows
- Distribute big data processing using tools such as AWS EMR and Spark
- Predictive modeling and machine learning models
- Healthcare data processing in accordance with HIPAA guidelines
- Workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Leading data science/analytics projects with cross-functional teams
- Break down key business deliverables into technical details and implementations
- Communicating complex technical concepts and results to non-technical stakeholders
- Utilize Databases such as SQL server, Snowflake, and AWS Athena
Benefits
- UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as matching 401k and an employee stock purchase plan.
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