Business Analyst, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence - IN

You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. As a critical member of our business analysis team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Are you ready to analyze data and deliver bold, business-savvy ideas to impact the lives of millions?
 
We are seeking a Business Analyst to join our team. We are in need of a strong business analyst with experience in Business Intelligence and Medicaid. The Business Analyst will be responsible for understanding and interpreting business needs; assessing the business impact of those needs; capturing; analyzing, documenting requirements; and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders. The Business Analyst will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to analyze and assess core business requirements, processes or procedures utilizing best business practices and current analysis techniques and methodologies. 
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Work closely with customers to gather business requirements and translate requirements clearly into accurate specifications
Maintain and update all requirements documents, ensuring adherence to business standards and best practices
Coordinate with cross-functional team members in the implementation of limited business system enhancements documenting requirements, establishing scope and objectives and determining strategy for implementing systems that achieve business goals
Attend client meetings with the purpose of establishing client relationship and ensuring complete understanding of business needs
Prepare and/or review deliverables and enforce the approval process of deliverables to ensure that quality assurance processes are strictly followed
Facilitate requirements meetings, as needed
Possess excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business users in a clear and concise manner
Collaborate with ETL developers, EDI specialist, and Project Manager (PM) to ensure project requirements/requests for changes are understood and within standards
Provide guidance to other team members regarding best/standard practices
Provide guidance/assistance to team members where needed to help ensure issues are resolved by assigned due date
Escalate concerns with ability to meet due dates to PM
Research issues and cases to determine root cause and provide impact analysis for ongoing issues, changes, and requests for new functionality

Required Qualifications:

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
3+ years of business analysis experience in the healthcare sector
Proven experience working with technical leads, programmers and developers to translate requirements into system designs
Proven experience using BI / DW tools - (e.g. Cognos, Informatica, Tableau, Teradata, MS Excel)
Proficient with SQL
Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint)
Preferred Qualifications

Medicaid Experience
Familiar with data warehouse concepts, designs & ETL processes
Familiar with SDLC and Agile methodologies
Strong understanding of relational databases and database structures
An understanding of a variety of modeling and/or diagramming techniques, with the ability to create process flow diagrams and the ability to read data flow and entity relationship models
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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.
 
 
Job Keywords: Business Analyst, Data warehouse, Business Intelligence, Indianapolis, IN