IT Healthcare Claims Systems Analyst - Multiple Locations - Full-time / Part-time

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)

Positions in this function work in the analysis phase of the system development cycle and consult with users to evaluate business requirements, identify operating procedures, evaluate existing or proposed systems and prepare detailed specifications from which programs will be written. This function also is intended to include those that also may define business processes.

This position is located in Phoenix, AZ; Basking Ridge, NJ; or Cypress, CA, Southfield, MI Minnetonka, MN;

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead 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 


• Reviews the work of others


• Develops innovative approaches


• Sought out as expert


• Serves as a leader/mentor

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree OR High School Diploma/GED with 5years of equivalent experience


• 5+ years of experience in EDI Transactions standards


• 5+ Systems analysis and design experience in the healthcare industry 


• 5+ Experience developing end to end analytical solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio) including ability to create pivot tables in Excel


• Experience/working knowledge of relational databases, database structures


• Experience writing SQL without assistance


• Experience in TriZetto FACETS system analysis preferred


• Health care industry experience 


• 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, 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.

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