Healthcare Data Analyst, Complex Medical Conditions - Minneapolis - Full-time / Part-time

You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. As a critical member of our business analysis team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Are you ready to analyze data and deliver bold, business-savvy ideas to impact the lives of millions?

As a Business Analysis Consultant, you will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance and maintain operational information and models that will have an impact on business decisions. In this leadership role, you will have the opportunity to take the contributions of analysts and create valuable solutions to improve the health care system. Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

This position preferably located in Golden Valley, MN

Moving to Eden Prairie, MN in 2015                                                      

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree


• 3+ years business analysis experience


• Proficiency with SAS which includes the ability to:




• Interpret requests and ask appropriate clarifying questions prior to beginning work


• Ability to convert existing processes (Excel, Access) to run in SAS


• Write and understand complex code


• Interpret output and troubleshoot code


• Code and understand complex joins using multiple tables and various join types (left, right, inner, outer)


• Manipulate large datasets efficiently


• 3+ years of experience integrating data from large relational databases


• 3+ years of experience in analyzing health insurance claims, health assessment, or similar types of clinical, program or employer data


• Excellent verbal and written communication, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills


• Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access)

Preferred Qualfifcations:

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  Ability to write/understand complex SQL queries involving advanced unions, joins, aggregations and groups


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  Knowledge of SAS Grid environment

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(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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.

Job keywords: Healthcare Data Analyst, business analysis, health insurance claims, health assessment, project management, SQL, SAS Grid, Minneapolis, MN