Sr Data Analyst – Remote

Optum is a global organization 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.

This is an exciting role in the growing Optum Health division within UnitedHealth Group. The ideal candidate is passionate about working with data and driven to deliver creative and compelling solutions and analytic results which turn data into actionable insights for our business. The prospective Senior Data Analyst will support the organization in identifying key trend components of the Optum Health clinical programs, key metrics for clinician documentation needs, statistical sampling, gap analysis, and assure data quality.

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

Stratify varies clinical documentations systems to identify sampling size needs for clinical review and coding accuracy

Develop process controls and reconciliation around file transfers and data involved in processes

Support Optum Health documentation completeness by creating analytics to provide data driven decisions for outcomes

Demonstrate a strong understanding of project scope, data extraction methodology, logic and design of data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical methods

Works with less structured data, able to merge data from different sources and perform data scrubbing prior to analysis to show clinical outcomes highlighting program impact and value

Use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data

Able to write and understand SQL/SAS queries to leverage existing standardized calculations of metrics and perform in depth statistical analysis and interpret data

Work effectively both as an individual analytic contributor and collaborator within the team

Job Scope:

Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them

Serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues

Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions

Performs complex conceptual analyses

Reviews work performed by others and provides recommendations for improvement

Forecasts and plans resource requirements

Authorizes deviations from standards

May lead functional or segment teams or projects

Provides explanations and information to others on the most complex issues

Motivates and inspires other team members

Develops innovative approaches

Sought out as expert

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

5 years of working knowledge of relational databases, database structures (SQL, Oracle, Teradata)

3 years of experience developing in business intelligence/visualization software (preferably Tableau or Power BI)

3 years of Healthcare Industry or related claims experience

Intermediate level of proficiency developing SAS/SQL queries

Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Office Suite (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word)

Excellent critical thinking and problem problem-solving skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Healthcare risk adjustment experience

Patient clinical management data experience

All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.