Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This position will help to develop Optum's cloud based actuarial analytics platforms, ingesting, conforming, cleansing, and enriching health payer data to support advanced actuarial and data science analytics. Our actuarial analytics platforms are built using Databricks, Snowflake and Power BI and other cloud based analytic and engineering tools.

This position will design, develop, implement, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain the delivery of data and analytics pipelines to support actuarial reporting and analytics. Additionally, this position will be involved in building actuarial enrichment data processes, productionizing data science algorithms and performing application POCs to support client service engagements.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead team of data engineers and data scientists and collaborate with actuaries to design and deliver cloud health care analytic solutions
• Responsible for data engineering lifecycle including research, proof of concepts, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Leverage deep technical knowledge to build, review, and quality control code to prepare, extract, and enrich data sources
• Work with different business groups to understand available resources and constraints around data (sources, integrity, and definitions), processing platforms, and security
• Ability to work with team members and clients to assess needs, provide assistance, and resolve problems
• Lead team in exploratory data analysis, generating and testing working hypotheses, and uncovering interesting trends and relationships
• Translate advanced business analytics problems into technical approaches that yield actionable recommendations, in the healthcare domain
• Build automated, scalable, flexible, secure, and cross domain data and analytic pipelines with supporting monitors, listeners, notifications, and process state reporting
• Lead monthly and quarterly production activities across multiple client engagements in parallel
• Maintain high quality documentation of data definitions, transformations, and processes to ensure data governance and security

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience writing code in SQL and/or Python (pyspark)
• 5+ years of expert knowledge of data discovery, cleaning, model selection, validation, and deployment
• 2+ years working with Apache Spark or Databricks
• 2+ years working with GitHub preferably using CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience in the healthcare domain, including working with claims and enrollment data with practical application
• 2+ years of experience leading teams of data scientists, engineers, and other data & analytics professionals
• Experience using orchestration tools such as ADF, Airflow, DBT, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working as an actuary or with actuaries
• Knowledge of health care concepts - benefits, pricing, underwriting, stop loss reinsurance, reserves, etc.
• Experience analyzing and building models using health care claims data
• Cloud development experience (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Snowflake experience
• Pytorch experience

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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.

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