Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data Analyst - Pharmacy Analytics

Optum is a global organisation 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.

About the Role:

In healthcare, evolution doesn't just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we're expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We'll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You'll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

As a Senior Data Analyst, this individual will be part of a pharmacy analytics team; focused on developing and implementing methods to improve data generation, usage and reliability. This individual will be a key team member, focused on developing foundational data-pipelines for downstream analytics.
In addition to having impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.

Primary Responsibilities of the Data Analyst:

• Creating documentation to explore and confirm business requirements.
• Research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data
• Implement analytic activities to support decision-making across multiple lines of business
• Implement process improvement initiatives and automation for efficiency where appropriate
• Collaborate with different lines of business and business functions, to understand their analytic needs, act as consultant to propose business solutions, and communicate results of analytics
• Be responsible for the delivery of results and the support of business strategies derived from data insights
• Utilizing SQL to create net new solutions, modify existing content and distribute the data to users and other systems.
• Participate in all phases of a project life cycle including database design, process flow, benchmark and trend analysis, and modelling
• Provide recommendations to the development team regarding query optimization

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Senior Data Analyst:

• Extensive experience in Data Analysis and/or Business Analysis
• Strong understanding of relational database concepts and working on cloud.
• Data manipulation and data transformation skills and proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as R or Python
• Proficient in research, interpreting, and analysing diverse and complex data, and assessing Data Quality
• Experience in deploying large scale analytical solutions or working in a large multinational company
• Proficiency with excel & visualization tools

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Data Analyst:

• Proficiency in a visualisation tool like Excel, Tableau, PowerBI or QlikView/QlikSense etc.
• Experience in tools such as Databricks, Airflow, GitHub actions, Azure cloud environment - Data factory, Data Lake
• Experience working within technical and business professionals in a matrix management environment.
• Experience or knowledge with cloud-based data analytics e.g. (AWS, Azure, Snowflake)
• Experience in healthcare industry, either from a pharmaceutical background or consulting firm.

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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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