Data Quality Analyst - Boston, MA

Innovation. Adaptability. A passion for analytics and problem solving.  If those traits brought you here, this opportunity can take you much further.  Humedica, now part of Optum, is serving the health care marketplace with the information tools and analytics solutions that will fuel change going forward.  We are well past big data.  In fact, we are using great data to uncover new solutions and novel marketplace opportunities. If you thrive on making an impact in an evolving market, we should be talking. Join the expanding family of UnitedHealth Group companies and help shape history. You'll help us improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work.(sm)

Optum's Humedica division is the foremost clinical intelligence group, providing private cloud-based business solutions to the health care industry. The environment is aggressive, fast paced and innovative. We are looking for smart, innovative individuals who will take ownership of their responsibilities, work collaboratively and always look for ways to add to the personal and professional growth of the company.

 
Together, we deliver smarter, faster and simpler solutions for a modern, innovative health system. We are also the career home to Data Quality Analysts who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day. If you strive to help people live healthier lives by building your career with a leader in health care, this is the career for you! Come share your expertise and your passion and do your life's best work.

As part of Humedica, you will predominantly be involved in analyzing data and data process, investigating issues or inconsistencies with data and figuring out why they exist.  You will use your intuition and creativity to take a micro and macro view of the data to figure out where to look and how to fix issues. You will be a primary contributor in working with cutting edge technology. This role will prepare you for significant career growth. You will work with terabytes of new data each month and participate in the daily operations of a data factory where we assemble that data that enables analytics on tens of millions of patient lives, and growing.

This is a unique development role where you will review data in aggregate and at row-level detail using a variety of modalities – SQL querying, visualizations, dashboards and summary reports. You will learn about the variety of clinical and financial data sources that come into the company and analyze that data for completeness and correctness. Sometimes you will use standard in-house reports to arrive at conclusions. Sometimes you will use your intuition to generate a hypothesis, and refute or confirm the hypothesis using the data. Together the data quality team provides confidence to all downstream users of the data and communicates findings that are viewed by your colleagues and our clients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support fast-paced monthly database build in a production environment.


• Use in-house data quality tools to review and analyze data volumes and/or perform ad-hoc analysis in addition to standard reports


• Query database using selects, joins, subqueries, aggregations, and more advanced SQL to research data questions and research anomalies to their root causes.


• Communicate data review findings to internal stakeholders, sometimes formally, sometimes informally


• Interview peers and browse our Wiki to continually learn about the data


• Contribute to the identification and specifications of new QA requirements as client data, and our data model, evolve


• Implement process flow improvements to expedite production cycle

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience with SQL (self-taught or on the job) or 1+ year of SQL and multiple years with another data analysis language


• 2+ years of data analysis experience


• Desire and ability to learn new skills, systems and processes


• Topical understanding of what a scripting language is and how it works

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of data analysis experience using SQL


• Knowledge of UNIX/LINUX


• Clinical data or health care industry experience


• Experience working around the software development life cycle


• Understanding of ETL / data warehouse processes

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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