Senior Data Analyst – Remote

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Positions in this family are related to the manipulation and analysis of data in support of a variety of analytic solutions. Roles within the family work with vast amounts of data from multiple sources to provide predictive and prescriptive analytics to the enterprise.

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Depending on the specific role and business line, example responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights and presenting recommendations for use across the company.

Roles in this function could partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles involved could include producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data.

Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms. This function is not intended for employees performing the following work: production of standard or self-service operational reporting, casual inference led (healthcare analytics) or data pattern recognition (data science) analysis; and/or image or unstructured data analysis using sophisticated theoretical frameworks.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Lead discovery sessions with business leaders to scope technical requirements for novel and non-standard business intelligence solutions
• Drive project planning for the development of business intelligence solutions to support existing analyses, perform new analyses, interpret results, develop actionable insights and present recommendations for use across the company
• Lead solution design for the development of business intelligence models and tools to support decision making by business leaders
• Represent the business intelligence team’s accountability by delivering subject matter expertise for supported business domains, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization
• Deliver analyses, interpret results, and provide actionable insights of business solutions to business leaders, presenting recommendations for use by organizational stakeholders of business intelligence tools
• Drive the development and maintenance of a suite of internal and external-facing reports used to monitor and communicate program performance
• Represent the business intelligence team’s accountability by delivering subject matter expertise for supported business domains, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across the organization
• Serve as mentor to other team members,…