Healthcare Analytics Technology Consultant- Telecommuter - Full-time / Part-time

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

At UnitedHealthcare we unite the brightest and most innovative minds to transform organizations and improve health care through information, technology, and innovation.

UnitedHealthcare Advanced Research and Analytics (ARA) specializes in improving the performance of the health system by providing analytics, technology, and consulting services that enable better decisions and performance. We integrate workflow solutions that deliver data in real-time, create actionable insights, and drive innovation across the healthcare industry.

What can YOU do in UnitedHealthcare to change the healthcare industry? The possibilities and the impact on the Advanced Research and Analytics team are limitless. No matter what your role is you will be empowered to ask more questions, develop better solutions and help make the health care system greater than ever. It's always fresh. It's always exciting. And it's never been more important.

What makes your Healthcare Analytics career greater with UnitedHealthcare? Advancement, access to data, ability to impact the healthcare industry, and rewards for delivering on our mission; Helping People Live Healthier Lives. 
 
Responsibilities

The Healthcare Analytics Technology Consultant is responsible for the successful development and deployment of analytical technology solutions, consulting with internal customer teams, managing program analytical portfolios, and identifying new insights, trends and relationships with a strong focus on leveraging enterprise data. These managers will be instrumental in enabling analytics partners to investigate, research, and analyze transactional data. Successful candidates would be able to combine their analytical prowess with ability to visualize and deploy end-to-end technology solutions and consult on operationalizing of solutions in the medical or pharmacy policy space, fraud-waste-abuse detection, marketing analytics and healthcare economics.

This position is also expected to contribute to the building, maintaining and expansion of analytics infrastructure for the Advanced Research & Analytics (ARA) team.

Daily responsibilities include managing team and engagement production, meeting departmental turnaround times, ensuring the accurate and timely completion of algorithms. Additional responsibilities involve working with Analytics Directors on staffing needs, strategic trend identification, monitoring claim inventory, issue resolution and technical solutions related to data, data flow and advising on algorithm development.

This role will be responsible for:

• Development, deployment and maintenance of end-to-end analytics technology solutions.

• Development and maintenance of Big Data infrastructure including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis.

• Set team direction, resolve problems and provide guidance to members of own team.

• May oversee work activities of other supervisors.

• Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address business and operational challenges.

• Influence or provide input to forecasting and planning activities.

• Make product, service or process decisions likely to impact multiple groups of employees and/or customers (internal or external).

• Collaborate with Analytics practitioners, Business Analysts and Methodologists to create working prototypes of solutions.

• Facilitating or creating complex statistical statements on healthcare data that measures various aspects of healthcare services, consumer episodes, and operational events

• Prioritize and manage an analysis plan and several analytical work streams in support of UHC initiatives and programs

• Work with Process Engineering, Payment Integrity, Quality Assurance, and Operations to validate that the methods designed are accurately reflected in the delivered solutions

•Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,  Healthcare Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Biostatistics,  Theoretical Physics, Quantitative Social Sciences or  Actuarial Science required

• Advanced proficiency in UNIX/LINUX environments required

• 3+ years of technology, research or problem solving experience required

• 3 years of statistical software experience (e.g., SAS , SPSS, or R) required

•1+ years of demonstrated experience in analytics management; Big Data mechanics, analytic processing, modeling and implementation required

• Must have good understanding of infrastructure planning, scaling, and administration, including demonstrated experience with Big Data platforms.

Preferred

• Master's degree preferred

• Hands-on experience with Hadoop stack (MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume)

• Previous experience with Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica desired.

• Familiarity with Tableau (and Tableau server) desired.

• Proficiency with SQL; VBA coding; Java; C etc., a plus.

• Knowledge of NoSQL platforms (e.g., MongoDB, Couchbase, MarkLogic etc.)

• Experience with healthcare data, specifically in Medicare and Medicaid analytics, provider and consumer analytics, and Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) analytics

Successful Candidates will have the following soft-skills:

• Demonstrated time management and project management skills

• Ability to navigate and drive results in a matrix environment

• Ability to document and communicate complex technical concepts

• Competency to convert research requirements to analytical specifications

• Able to recognize technical and analytical problems and solution with minimal supervision

• Effective in fast-paced team-oriented Environment

UnitedHealthcare, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, is comprised of three specialized businesses dedicated to meeting the health care benefits needs of individuals and groups; all part of something greater, but each with a specialized focus:

UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual works with individuals, small businesses and large multi-site employers to provide innovative, affordable benefits services.

UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement is focused on serving Americans over the age of 50. It is the largest business dedicated to meeting the growing health and well-being needs of aging individuals in the nation, serving one in five Medicare beneficiaries through a comprehensive and diversified array of products and services through four industry-leading businesses.

UnitedHealthcare Community & State provides high-quality, personalized, public-sector health care programs that help local government agencies improve health outcomes for millions of children and low-income and disabled individuals at an affordable cost.

Together, we're removing the barriers that keep people from receiving the kind of quality health care that makes a difference. We focus on Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation and Performance as we empower people to achieve better health and well-being.

Come grow and thrive in our culture of innovation and ideas. Because there is no opportunity greater than the quest to help people live healthier lives.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace.  Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.