Senior IT Business Analyst - Rocky Hill, CT or Telecommute - Full-time / Part-time

You believe data can help reshape the future, and you find yourself loving the thrill of diving into challenging analysis. At UnitedHealth Group, you'll find an organization that will recognize those talents and have lots of growth potential. Here, you will be empowered, supported and encouraged to use your analysis expertise to help change the future of health care. Does the challenge intrigue you?

As a key member of the Analyst team, you will be part of UnitedHealth Group's mission of helping people live healthier lives. As an Reimbursemen Analyst, you will grow and develop as you conduct and manage outcomes of various studies. You will be challenged to analyze, review, and forecast data for operational and business planning.  As part of this elite team, you will be empowered to impact the health care system through the analysis and interpretation of data, and presenting recommendations for business solutions. Join us! There's never been a better time to do your life's best work(sm)

                                                                                      
Primary Responsibilities:

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  Perform all business analysis functions for development projects. Demonstrate value by developing the business requirements, specifications, and supporting the design and testing efforts, on strategic data delivery projects in Optum Data Management (ODM)


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  Determine needed business analysis resources, assist in cost/benefit analysis, establish overall project plans and ensure project success


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  Assist users in prioritization process and the development of strategies and performance goals


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  Develop detailed implementation planning


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  Conduct analysis of alternatives, offer solutions, and make recommendations


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  Assist in formulating and defining systems scope and objectives through research, data analysis, interviews, and fact finding


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  Assimilates, integrates, and interfaces technical knowledge with business/systems requirements


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  Query data and perform data analysis, data mapping, for conversion or migration activities


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  Verifies technical system specifications meet business requirements


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  Verifies test plans will accurately validate business requirements


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  Coordinate user acceptance testing activities across multiple business users and constituents


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  Involved in projects converting from non-strategic to strategic systems Projects involve more than one user area and more than one system. These projects have a significant impact on department, division, and business unit business and financial objectives


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  Effectively communicate with many levels of the organization, business stakeholders/SMEs, project managers, developers, system architects, quality assurance, operations, etc.


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  Work on multiple simultaneous initiatives; ability to multi - task


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  Handles tasks of high complexity or risk

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer, healthcare, or business, or equivalent work experience


• 3+ years of US Healthcare BA experience working in large, complex, matrix organization


• 3 + years' experience in performing data analysis, querying databases and utilizing query tools (e.g., Teradata Client, Toad, SQL, Sagent)


• 3+ years' experience in writing Functional Specifications and performing data mapping.


• Excellent written and verbal skills, including 3 or more years' experience with focused customer communications, requirements gathering via formal sessions (e.g., JADs), presentation of requirements documents, PowerPoint presentations, and meeting facilitation


• Subject matter expertise in the Healthcare Industry and related data

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with Optum Data Management data warehouses, systems, and platforms


• Knowledge of UHC and OptumHealth businesses. Community and State business and data knowledge highly valued for upcoming key initiative


• Experience with UHG systems development standards/requirements (e.g., SDLC, UDP, RSA, ADR requirements)
  

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care 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, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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