Director Data Science Job In Dublin

**Director of Data Science** **Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives.** **Key Responsibilities:** • Provide insight and guidance into actionable analytic findings through clear, succinct written and oral summaries, tables, charts, reports or presentations, that can be understood by a variety of audiences. • Partner with stakeholders across and verticals to understand their analytic and business needs and lead the development of tools and models to deliver business solutions and drive change. • Synthesize Business Requirements and translate into technical specifications. • Define technical, data and system configuration specifications and business analysis requirements. • Architect the solutions; lead the development teams in accomplishing the analytic outcomes and be accountable for socializing to the leadership. • Anticipate customer needs, proactively develop & deliver solutions to meet them, and forecast/predict the impact to the business. • Identify gaps, process improvement, and automation opportunities, and lead such activities to execution. • Lead the development of available data to develop insights regarding the effectiveness of existing analytic tools and methodologies. • Utilize a broad range of analytic approaches including predictive analytics, issue detection, trend analysis, and data visualization to best address the business priorities. • Leadership in planning, developing, testing, and distributing of deliverables on time. • Develop business plans, economic evaluations, and ROI calculations for assessing alternate courses of action. • Explore innovative new uses for successful analytic products and services. • Develop proficiency with departmental programming, analytic and reporting software and other tools. • Comply with and contribute to departmental standards related to data, data governance, project planning, validation, and documentation. • Mentor junior resources to develop their analytic skills. • Design conceptional and logical data model and flowcharts. **Requirements:** • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (data science, analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience. • Extensive experience working with technical and business professionals in a matrix management environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines. • Proven track record of leading teams on analytic projects, driving change and influencing individuals at all levels of the organization to take appropriate risks. • Experience with statistical models with a demonstrated understanding of different statistical methods and approaches. • Clearly demonstrated expertise in problem solving, data management, study design, and study implementation with the ability to gain subject matter expertise through individual research and self-guided analyses. • Advanced experience in Machine Learning or AI model development and deployment. • High degree of proficiency with Data Visualization / Dashboard tools (e.g., Power BI). • Expert proficiency in SQL, and at least one scripting language such as SAS, R, or Python. **Preferred Qualifications:** • Ph.D or Master's Degree in relevant field (data science, analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience. • Experience or knowledge of cloud-based data analytics e.g. (AWS, Azure, Snowflake). • Experience in medical data including hospital, ancillary, and physician. **About Optum:** Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. 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.