Data Scientist

Data Scientist, Letterkenny or Dublin -Hybrid

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 doesnt 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, were expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. Well provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. Youll 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. We are accountable to build pricing in one of the most complex areas of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world. We bring initiative, innovative thinking and curiosity to constantly evolve in a changing regulatory and competitive environment. The changes we make impacts the prices on over 150 million prescriptions in the US market annually.

As a Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise and skills to produce financial forecasts and measure the value of our pricing engine as your primary goals. In support of these goal you will be analyzing data, problem solving with the team, prototyping solutions, building data pipelines, producing visuals, utilizing and augmenting the pricing engine prediction logic, and reporting out on our measures. You will be part of a team supporting these goals as well.

Primary Responsibilities of the Data Scientist:

• Explore, analyze and interpret large datasets to identify patterns, trends and anomalies
• Build data pipelines, forecasting algorithms and dashboards to track value and forecasts
• Produce, quality check and report out on financial forecasts and pricing engine value metrics
• Collaborate with the team and partners to solve problems including addressing data issues
• Collaborate with other teams who will integrate prototype solutions into the data warehouse and business intelligence repository
• Propose technical and procedural changes and contribute to their delivery
• Ensure quality in design and coding outputs
• Work independently and with focus when needed
• Maintain your knowledge of latest technologies and techniques relating to analytics and data science
• Work within the solution delivery methods and standards set out

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 Data Scientist:

• Undergraduate degree in engineering, advanced analytics, data science, computer science or a related field
• A high standard of programming experience with Python and SQL
• Experience building dashboards
• Experience with data analysis and problem solving
• Knowledge of best practices for optimization and prediction model development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with financial forecasting
• Experience with production system change delivery methods and techniques including experience working with the Agile delivery framework, deployment practices, version control and testing practices

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 Groups 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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