IT Systems Analyst - Eden Prairie, MN / Cypress, CA / Basking Ridge, NJ - 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) 

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


• Serve 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


• Translate business requirements into design


• Perform detail analysis and design


• Support all phases of Software Development Lifecycle

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent 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


• Proficiency with MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint


• 3+ years of Relational Database experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• IBM Mainframe experience


• Claim system experience


• UnitedHealth Group work experience


• 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, 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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