Principal Data Analyst

Job title:

Principal Data Analyst

Company

UnitedHealth Group

Job description

Principal Data Analyst- Dublin or Letterkenny/ HybridOptum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.About the Role:In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.
As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.
As a Principal Data Analyst you will be pivotal in developing sophisticated analytic capabilities to address our clients’ needs for PBM services. The Principal Data Analyst is essential for ensuring empowering client-facing and product development teams with best-in-class analytics to better serve our clients and patients Working alongside the OptumRx Clinical Analytics Team you’ll have the opportunity to directly influence clinical products and services, delivering cost savings and improved clinical outcomes. In addition to having impact on a great team, you’ll also discover the career opportunities you’d expect from an industry leader.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 or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Design, implement and be responsible for market leading analytic solutions to alert on trends in OptumRx clients’ prescription drug utilization, diagnose their needs for PBM services (clinical programs, formulary products, drug exclusion lists, critical drug affordability, benefit design etc.,), measure and track the performance of these services in terms of clients’ pharmacy spend savings
• Lead solution delivery projects; ensuring the delivery of robust, sustainable, and scalable analytics while engaging with IT and business partners
• Collaborate with lines of business to understand their analytic needs, contribute to shaping business solutions and communicate results of analytics
• Actively consult with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure appropriate business content is incorporated into analytic approaches
• Deliver well-engineered, scalable data products to support integrated analytics and reporting
• Work with UX designers, business program owners, and client managers to develop compelling visualizations
• Rapidly develop new insights and iterate upon those insights to drive business decisions
• Create annotated Data Bricks code and documentation describing analytics methodologies, data product designs using layman’s terms that will serve as the documented technical requirements for IT partners to scale and productionize analytics solutions
• Efficiently deliver on ad-hoc analysis requests from a wide range of stakeholders

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Significant experience in data analytics and engineering roles using cloud technologies
• Technical experience in MS Azure, Python, SQL, Databricks, Data Factory and Git
• Ability to visualize, interpret and efficiently communicate data insights using Power BI (or similar)
• Comfortable analyzing and interpreting large volumes of data from disparate data sources with the ability to error proof the output of analyses
• Quantitative mindset and ability to understand complex processes
• Experience in creating rapid prototypes (ETL, Analytics logic)
• Demonstrated ability to own solution delivery with strong organizational, time management and problem-solving skills
• 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 of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Undergraduate degree in discipline with strong analytical focus (analytics, mathematics, statistics, engineering etc.
• Experience in delivering predictive and/or prescriptive analytics in an industry setting that yielded real business value.
• Experience in healthcare and\or consulting delivering analytics projects
• Computer science qualification or experience

For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, click .All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:09:34 GMT

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