Senior Healthcare Economics Consultant - National Remote

Job title: Senior Healthcare Economics Consultant - National Remote in Eden Prairie, MN at UnitedHealth Group
Company: UnitedHealth Group
Job description: 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 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 ETL methodology, 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. Generally, work is self-directed and not prescribed.You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and Deploy Apache Spark and Scala programs on Azure Databricks in a very dynamic and challenging work environment
• Help write analytics code, services and components in Apache Spark, and related technologies such as Scala and Pyspark (Python)
• Responsible for systems analysis – Design, Coding, Unit Testing and other SDLC activities
• Be able to determine the impact of changes in current functionality of the system
• Interaction with diverse Business Partners and Technical WorkgroupsWork proactively, independently and with global teams to address project requirements, and articulate issues/challenges with enough lead time to address project delivery risks
• Work as a Dev-Ops team member to successfully monitor and maintain Operational processes
• Be able to be flexible to collaborate with offshore team, during IST business hours
• Be able to be flexible to support project releases, during US business hours
• Adherence to the defined delivery process/guidelines
• Drive project quality process compliance
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource for others
• Requirement gathering and understanding, Analyze and convert functional requirements into concrete technical tasks and able to provide reasonable effort estimates
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

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:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 5+ years of experience working on SQL, including Snowflake
• 3+ years of experience with Python, Pyspark, Scala
• 3+ years of experience with Azure Databricks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Azure Data Factory
• Solid healthcare domain knowledge
• Exposure to following DevOps methodology and creating CI/CD deployment pipeline, using GitHUB actions
• Exposure to following Agile methodology specifically using tools like Rally
• Proven ability to understand the existing application codebase, perform impact analysis and update the code when required based on the business logic or for optimization
• Proven excellent analytical and communication skills (Both Verbal and Written)

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.For more information on our Internal Job Posting Policy, .The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually based on full-time employment. 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.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.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.UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.#RPO, #GREEN
Expected salary: $89800 - 176700 per year
Location: Eden Prairie, MN
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