Senior IT Systems Analyst (Healthcare) - Phoenix, AZ

Position Description:

Your passion for innovation can impact millions.

At Optum, we believe the technology we create helps to change lives. When you join us as a Senior IT Systems Analyst, you will have the opportunity to be a part of that change. You will work alongside our brilliant teams who are focused on solutions to meet a wide range of health consumer needs. We need world-class Systems Analysts, like you, to help us build our next generation customer experience. In this role, you will be a part of the system development cycle and consult with end users to evaluate business requirements into design specifications. You'll excel as you work with all levels of the business, ensuring information technology deliverables align with the business requirements, with measurable results. Here, your passion for performance and innovation can fuel your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering, service-oriented modeling, analysis and design activities


• Evaluate business requirements and prepare detailed functional and technical specifications


• Communicate design to all stakeholders and varying levels of the organization


• Serve as the liaison between business and systems analysts, developers and project management groups


• Present and evaluate design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution


• Define, use and communicate design patterns and best practices in service oriented analysis, design and development


• Collaborate with quality assurance team to ensure testing efforts align with system deliveries and business processes


• Develop strategies to improve service development life cycle and governance processes


• Develop detailed source-to-target data mapping and data transformation rules


• Develop and use enterprise service and data models


• Evaluates business requirements and prepares detailed specifications that follow project guidelines required to develop written programs


• Formulates, defines and documents the functional system specifications


• Devises or modifies procedures that solve complex business problems with due consideration for hardware/software capacity and limitations, operating times and the desired results


• Analyzes and revises existing functional documentation


• Generates innovative ideas to resolve problems


• Responsible for meeting or exceeding all defined target goals and milestone dates for the project in order to ensure its overall success


• Assists in training junior level personnel in technical complexities of assigned work
• Working with HIPPA EDI protocols for transfer mapping and testing
• Following Agile methodology in a Agile environment 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or HS diploma/GED with 4+ years of System Analyst or IT development work experience


• 3+ years of experience in 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


• Healthcare and claims experience


• 837 transaction experience

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.