Job Description
About the Role:
At Optum, we're committed to making healthcare work better for everyone. As a key member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in developing and implementing advanced reporting, analytic approaches, and tooling. You'll work closely with other leaders to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our entire organization.
We're looking for a thought leader who thrives on architecting new solutions to solve tough challenges. As the Director of Data Analytics, you'll collaborate cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams, have proven business analysis experience, and the ability to manage multiple competing business projects at one time.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements, and you'll have the opportunity to split your monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead data & analytic operations for the Chart targeting business processes
- Gather operational metrics, define & create operational dashboards to monitor the business processes end to end
- Own the operational readiness & implementation for changes to existing or new business processes
- Proactively monitor/validate of all upstream dependencies for the analytic, own the quality of the analytic results and the operational processes
- Analyze/understand complex data issues across multiple applications/teams, identify & document the root cause and steps to fix and/or prevent the issue from recurring
- Define/maintain standard operational procedures (SOPs) for all operational processes, accurately track variations based on client specific needs
- Make data driven decisions to bring operational efficiencies, improve the analytic as well as business processes
Required Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in data analysis with relational and non-relational databases
- Experience leading data and production operations in healthcare, including mentoring and leading other data analysts
- Experience working with Healthcare datasets, such as claims, membership and provider data
- Proven track record of driving business and data solutions in a complex data environment
- Experience in driving decisions on complex problems with SME's and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Risk Adjustment and CMS Data
- Experience as a Subject matter expertise in any sub domain of the healthcare industry
- Experience using any reporting tools
- Excellent written and communication skills
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
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.