Big Data Healthcare Analyst - Telecommute

Do you want to Impact decisions to help people live healthier lives?

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. At UnitedHealth Group, we're changing the landscape of our industry. Here, you'll shift your leadership skills into a gear you didn't even know you had as a Business Process Improvement professional. You'll put your business analysis and project management skills to work as you empower business partners and team members to create and improve business processes. You will design processes, project implementations and diagnose process improvement opportunities as you develop innovative solutions.

You'll be in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. Yes, we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and manage integration business technology solutions and applications, analytical technology solutions


• Develop and manage technology solutions portfolios, and identifying new technology approaches to solve business problems with a strong focus on leveraging enterprise data


• Enable efficient tools to streamline analytic tool development and deployment of enterprise platforms.


• Consult with internal customer teams


• Manage internal engagements, meeting project and deliverable timelines, ensuring the accurate and timely completion of deliverables


• Work with Analytics Directors on staffing needs, strategic technology trend identification, monitoring project progress and completion, issue resolution and technical solutions related to data, analytics and advising on analytics tool deployment


• Deploy and oversee end-to-end analytics and data technology capabilities


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


• Collaborate with analytics practitioners, business analysts and methodologists to design and oversee the development of working prototypes of technical solutions

Required Qualifications:

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


• 2+ years of experience with Hadoop


• 2+year's proficiency Java, UNIX and SQL


• 3+ years in enterprise architecture, data warehousing, business intelligence, and advanced analytics


• 2+ years of 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with visualization capabilities such as D3.JS and Tableau (and Tableau server)


• Experience with advanced language/scripting (Python, Scala)


• Healthcare domain experience


• Minimum 3 years of technology, research or problem solving experience


• Demonstrated experience with analytical platform/data management platform integration


• Demonstrated experience with analytic tool planning, scaling, and administration


• Experience with app development, analytical infrastructure development, and business solution consulting experience in the medical or pharmacy policy space, fraud-waste-abuse detection, marketing analytics and healthcare economics


• Collaborate with analytics practitioners, business analysts and methodologists to lead process design and project implementation of technical solutions and processes

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 14 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can 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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