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.

As the associate data scientist, you will act as the analytical expert and will provide analytic leadership to support Government Program operational reporting and analytics, business insights, reporting, data engineering, forecasting, and process improvements. You'll work closely with business leaders to develop innovative analytic solutions, create actionable insights and drive better decisions and performance to help Government Operation fulfill its mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative analytic solutions, create actionable insights and drive better decisions and performance to help the business achieve its business objectives
• Support operational analytics, reporting and process improvement data deep dive, identify and execute on new opportunities for increases in efficiencies and performance
• Data transformation to support front-end reporting analytics, along with ability to understand and utilize ETL 'back end' data transformation, development, and configuration
• Analyze technical and domain related issues in live applications, support business queries and questions related to application output and business logic
• Data quality - develop QA processes; create validation and test scenarios and datasets; validate results against data sources and expected business trends; root cause analysis into why trends differ; test & QA data loading, ETL, and reporting processes
• Develop visionary and creative analytic solutions to measure business performance; identifies / quantifies drivers, risks and opportunities and defines solutions to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities
• Influences senior leadership to adopt new ideas, projects and / or approaches
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Competencies:

• Self-starter with an engaging leadership style, solid influencing and facilitation skills that will quickly develop relationships across the organization while building a collaborative work environment
• Analytic thought leadership with skills in developing innovative and creative analytic solutions to complex problem
• Solid business acumen and critical thinking ability
• Executive presence and presentation skill - ability to "tell a compelling story" in a concise and effective manner to non-technical executives
• Solid problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate, identify and diagnose problems and make recommendations
• Goal-directed, persistent and driven to achieve positive results. Is positive influence on others and deals well with setbacks. Identifies integration issues, removes barriers and tracks project status in order to obtain desired results
• Detail orientation - getting "into the trenches" to evaluate all aspects of operations. Pivotal to success will be the ability to take a hands-on approach to getting the information needed and driving effective and lasting change
• A people leader with solid ability to develop relationships/influence across functional teams that work across multiple business units
• Serve as a solid coach and will foster career development of team members

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in reporting & analysis, data management & reconciliation
• 3+ years knowledge on Python, AI & ML technologies
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases such as MS SQL Server/Oracle/Teradata/IBM DB2/MySQL
• Proven ability to analyze and understand data & its business context, to map or extend existing data models and/or design new structures
• Proven ability to demonstrate key successes on business solutions derived from analysis and deep learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience with Agile framework, Data Warehousing Design, Cloud Technologies
• Experience in data process map, workflow, user acceptance testing, and database management
• Previous experience with advanced analytical tools (R / Tiger Graph)
• Previous experience with Healthcare Exchange / Marketplace / Medicaid / Medicare
• Any prior experience on Data Science and Analytics or interest on these platforms

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.