Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is focused on improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. They are seeking a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to develop and enhance analytics, support data ingestion processes, and consult on new project initiatives while leveraging both existing and open-source tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide realistic effort estimates and project timelines for development and support projects
• Interpret business requirements and functional specifications and create technical design and technical specifications documents
• Develop analytic processes following existing standard structures and macros. Develop for a production environment
• Conduct data extraction and research studies that may include analyzing, reviewing, trending, and presenting information, based on provided specifications, to support adhoc data request
• Work with business engagement leaders and technical analysts to develop new and modify existing process documentation and templates
• Conduct analyses of data elements within existing source data mart schemas
• Analyze healthcare claims from different data sources and identify data integrity issues
• Perform unit, system and regression testing for programs for quality assurance
• Performance tuning of existing applications and analytics
• Guide and advise developers to identify and improve the efficiency of current programming practices
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, ideas and information relating to technologies and be a key technical expert within the team
• Lead/Mentor new and existing team members
• Continually identify deficiencies in production processes, propose enhancements, and implement those enhancements to increase productivity or reduce manual effort

Skills

• 3+ years of experience with SAS
• 3+ years Relational Database experience - Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, and/or Snowflake
• 3+ years of analysis, process, problem solving and critical thinking experience
• 1+ years of Healthcare Data Experience
• UNIX
• Azure, Python, Spark, or Databricks Experience
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

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