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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Santa Ana, CA
Santa Ana, California

About this job

Grow your career with an exciting opportunity with Optum, where you will be a part of creating software solutions that help to change lives - millions of lives. As an IT Systems Analyst at Optum, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a focused team dedicated to helping to make the health care system work better for everyone. Here, you'll partner with some of the smartest people you've ever worked with to design solutions to meet a wide range of health consumer needs. And we need world-class Systems Analysts, like you, to help us build our next generation customer experience.


We are currently seeking several strong Facets Functional Systems Analysts in our Santa Ana, California Delivery Center. These talented analysts must have experience in one or more niche area: Clinical, Provider or Claims Systems. The selected candidates must be high energy and thrive in a start-up culture while building a new product platform from scratch.


As part of our elite team, you will play a pivotal role in the system development cycle and consult with end users to evaluate business requirements into design specifications. You will work with all levels of the business, ensuring IT deliverables align with business requirements, with measurable results. There's never been a more exciting time to work in health care where performance and innovation can fuel your life's best work.(SM)

Primary Responsibilities:



  • Evaluate business requirements and prepare the detailed functional and technical specifications that follow project guidelines
  • Work closely with Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts to ensure requirements and design are completely understood
  • Communicate design to all stakeholders and varying levels of the organization
  • Act as the liaison between Business and Systems Analysts, Developers and project management groups
  • Present and evaluate design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution
  • Work closely with business teams to strategize solutions that support long term business objectives
  • Ensure IT deliverables align with business requirements with measurable results
  • Collaborate with QA team to ensure testing efforts align with system deliveries and business processes
  • Lead and mentor other Systems Analysts
  • Uses extensive Facets configuration, business knowledge and effective communication skills to facilitate and elicit requirements for projects
  • Provide subject matter expertise in Claims Business Systems Analysis and recommendations in assessing software projects and initiatives to support and enhance systems
  • Work closely with the stakeholders and business leaders to demonstrate the highest levels of customer service, communication, productivity, and professionalism
  • Develops business process artifacts (configuration design documents, process flow, work state diagrams, etc.) as they pertain to multiple functional areas
  • Creates use cases, test scenarios, test cases, clearly communicate and apply testing methodologies to ensure quality outcomes
  • Organizes and synthesizes large amounts of information provided by stakeholders into presentation material
  • Documents and implements configuration and process improvements and controls for traceability and future reuse
  • Troubleshoots configuration and technical issues and identifies modifications needed to meet changing user and regulatory requirements
  • Assists with the analysis and documentation of current state and future state
  • Maintains up-to-date knowledge of current trends in Government Information Technology solutions, and issues in healthcare, national and statewide standards and legislations, changing policies and procedures

Requirements

Required Qualfiications:


  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of experience in Facets Systems Analysis or IT Development
  • 3 + years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) /System Development Life Cycle
  • 3+ years of experience translating business requirements into a detailed system specification
  • 3+ years of experience mapping data from web services or database to user interface
  • Proficiency with MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint
  • 3+ years of Relational Database experience (Oracle or similar)
  • Ability to travel between 25-50% of the time in the U.S.
  • Must work in the Santa Ana, CA location

  • Must have 2 year's or more experience with one or more niche area: Clinical, Provider and or Claims Systems

Preferred Qualifications:




  • UnitedHealth Group work experience


  • Health care experience and industry knowledge


  • Experience working with test plans and test cases


  • Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions


  • Experience working in an Agile environment or familiarity with Agile methodology

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place 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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