• Job Description

  Req#: 2174992

  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:

  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.

  You will join a highly talented team of data scientists and analysts who are responsible for developing advanced analytic capabilities designed to diagnose our clients’ needs for PBM services. Clinical Analytics team is part of OptumRx clinical organization, and our analytics often end up in clinical products and services that deliver cost savings and other clinical outcomes, so we play a huge role in empowering client-facing and product development teams with best-in-class insights to better serve our clients and patients.

  Primary Responsibilities:

  · 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

  Required Qualifications:

  · 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:

  · 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

  · Technical experience in SAS

  · Computer science qualification or experience

  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.

• About the company

  UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American multinational managed healthcare and insurance company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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