Principal Data Analyst

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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.

About The Role

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver technology & process improvements that bring to application to deliver measurable benefits.
• Working with stakeholders to refine data requirement and roadmaps.
• Drive innovation by testing new technology and approaches to continually advance the capability of the data engineering function.
• Lead and Mentor the team of Data Analysts and Data Engineers.
• To Scope, Design, build, test and implement tactical & strategic solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders and provide insights and recommendations on process/system improvements that will support delivery & data strategy.
• Utilizing SQL to create net new solutions, modify existing content and distribute the data to users and other systems.
• Develop Data Standards and deploys automation tools to obtain and process data from different sources.
• Drive the development, monitoring, review, and evaluation of new metrics, KPIs, key risk indicators, reports & dashboards, utilizing data discovery techniques across complex data sets. Building Azure Data services to support development activities (Azure SQL Server, ADF, Databricks) and some on-premises Microsoft SQL Database servers.
• Provide recommendations to the development team regarding query optimization.
• Project leadership as required.
• Maintain & refine Data Backlog for Engineering team based on Stakeholder engagements & business Priorities.
  
  

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

• Solid SQL experience, including experience with various Database technologies (e.g. Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Teradata etc.)
• Proficient Python, Spark or PySpark experience
• Experience in data ETL and blending tools
• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in writing and orally to individuals and groups.
• Hands-on experience developing data pipelines that demonstrate a solid understanding of software engineering principles.
• Power Platform (PowerBI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines on either AWS, Azure or GCP, following best practices in Cloud deployments
• Understanding of system hardening, and threat and vulnerability management
• Data migration projects / Dev-ops / Data-Dev-Ops / Query Optimization.
• Proven track record in delivering technology driven solutions through full project life cycle
  
  

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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