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Data Scientist

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny or Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. Experience with production system change delivery methods and techniques including experience working with the Agile delivery framework, deployment practices, version control and testing practices .

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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.  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.  You will join a team of data scientists and data analysts who are responsible for building the pricing engine on our pricing platform.   We build the algorithms that find the optimal combination of prices to achieve multiple targets, given multiple constraints and uncertain future outcomes.   As a Senior Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise and skills to improve our value measurements, produce financial forecasts, and build out our pricing engine capability. In support of these goals you will be conducting research and analysis, problem solving with the team, prototyping solutions, improving our pricing engine optimization algorithms, and reporting out on our measures.  You will be part of a team supporting these goals as well. Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny or Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.  Primary Responsibilities: <ul style="margin-top:0in"><li>Develop logic and algorithms in our Pricing Engine to optimize more pricing on our pricing platform </li><li>Research methods and solutions, analyze data, prototype solutions and critically evaluate designs to optimize pricing </li><li>Advocate for both technical and procedural changes and shepherd them through to delivery </li><li>Ensure quality in design, coding outputs and forecasts produced </li><li>Collaborate with the team and partners to solve problems </li><li>Collaborate with other teams who will integrate prototype solutions into the data warehouse and business intelligence repository </li><li>Work independently and with focus when needed </li><li>Explore, analyze and interpret large datasets to identify patterns, trends and anomalies </li><li>Build data pipelines, forecasting algorithms and dashboards to track value and forecasts </li><li>Produce, quality check and report out on financial forecasts and pricing engine value metrics </li><li>Maintain your knowledge of latest technologies and techniques relating to analytics and data science </li><li>Guide and support other team members </li><li>Work within the solution delivery methods and standards set out </li></ul>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:  <ul style="margin-top:0in"><li>Bachelors degree in engineering, data science, computer science, or a related field</li><li>A high standard of programming experience with Python and SQL </li><li>Experience with production system change delivery methods and techniques including experience working with the Agile delivery framework, deployment practices, version control and testing practices </li><li>Experience with data analysis and problem solving </li><li>Knowledge of best practices for optimization and prediction model development </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications <ul style="margin-top:0in"><li>Experience with Azure analytics solutions </li><li>Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and containerization </li><li>Masters degree or PhD in a technical field (e.g. computer science, science, engineering, math, statistics, physics etc.) </li><li>Experience with financial forecasting </li><li>Experience building dashboards </li></ul>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.    #RPO #BBMEMEA

Optum

Senior Data Scientist

Agile Programming Methodologies

Algorithms

Analysis Skills

Best Practices

Business Intelligence

Computer Science

Continuous Deployment/Delivery

Continuous Integration

Data Analysis

Data Management

Data Science

Data Sets

Data Warehousing

Design Evaluation

Emerging Technology

Financial Reporting

Forecasting

Healthcare

Mathematics

Metrics

Microsoft Windows Azure

Optimization Algorithm

Physics

Predictive Modeling

Pricing

Problem Solving Skills

Production Systems

Prototyping

Python Programming/Scripting Language

Quality Assurance Methodology

Reporting Dashboards

Research Skills

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)

Statistics

Trend Analysis

Work From Home

TMP PX

So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. 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.

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. <p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">About the Role<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">The Principal Data Scientist will partner with Pharmacy business units to build scalable solutions to business problems. The role requires strong collaboration with internal partners to set the analytics direction and to deliver on identified opportunities. The successful candidate will contribute to creating and maintaining clear, strategic vision and a plan for bringing actionable, innovative analytic solutions to fruition. <p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office.<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Primary Responsibilities:<ul><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Direct and implement analytic activities to support decision-making for UnitedHealthcare Pharmacy</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Build scalable data solutions for core business functions</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Collaborate with different lines of business to understand their analytic needs, propose & deliver business solutions and drive change</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Anticipate customer needs, proactively develop & deliver solutions to meet them, and forecast/predict the impact of business strategies</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Implement process improvement initiatives and automation for efficiency where appropriate</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Research, interpret, and analyse diverse and complex data and communicate findings to influence the business direction</li><li style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 );font-size:13.02px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 );font-family:'tahoma'">Utilise a broad range of analytic approaches including predictive analytics, issue detection, trend analysis, and data visualisation to best address the business priorities</li></ul>Requirements: <ul><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Degree Qualified (BA, BS) in relevant field (analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Significant experience in data analytics or data science, ideally with experience working with financial or healthcare-related data (e.g. pharmaceuticals, medical claims)</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Proficient in researching, interpreting, and analysing diverse and complex data</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Extensive data manipulation skills across structured and unstructured sources/repositories such as relational and non-relational databases, CSV’s, API’s, text, Excel, etc.</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language such as R or Python</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Demonstrated effective project ownership, management, drive & delivery</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Stakeholder management experience, dealing with multiple stakeholders, and forming effective partnerships</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Strong business acumen, with the ability to strategically consult with the business</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in writing and orally to individuals and groups </li></ul>Desired:<ul><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Proficiency in a visualisation tool like Excel, Tableau, PowerBI or QlikView/QlikSense etc.</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Experience or knowledge with cloud-based data analytics e.g. (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks)</li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Masters and/or PhD in Finance, Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, Econometrics, or other relevant field of study </li><li style="font-family:'tahoma'">Experience in healthcare industry, either from a pharmaceutical background or consulting firm</li></ul>Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SMAt 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. 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.  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.#BBMEMEA

Principal Data Scientist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Application Programming Interface (API)

Automation

Biotech and Pharmaceutical

Business Skills

Business Solutions

Business Strategy

Cloud Computing

Communication Skills

Compensation and Benefits

Computer Networks

Consulting

Data Visualization

Decision Support

Econometrics

Economics

Environmental Impact

Finance

Financial Analysis

Needs Assessment

Pharmacy

Power BI

Process Improvement

Qlik

R Programming Language

Relational Databases (RDBMS)

Scalable System Development

Scripting (Scripting Languages)

Tableau

Vision Plan

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