Key skills
SASOracleTeradataMySQLSnowflakeHealthcare DataUNIXAzurePythonSparkDatabricksSQLVS CodeGitHub CopilotAgileScrumAIAnalyticsGitHubCritical ThinkingProblem Solving
About this role
Optum is focused on improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. They are seeking a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to develop and enhance analytics, support data ingestion processes, and consult on new project initiatives while leveraging both existing and open-source tools.
Responsibilities:
- Provide realistic effort estimates and project timelines for development and support projects
- Interpret business requirements and functional specifications and create technical design and technical specifications documents
- Develop analytic processes following existing standard structures and macros. Develop for a production environment
- Conduct data extraction and research studies that may include analyzing, reviewing, trending, and presenting information, based on provided specifications, to support adhoc data request
- Work with business engagement leaders and technical analysts to develop new and modify existing process documentation and templates
- Conduct analyses of data elements within existing source data mart schemas
- Analyze healthcare claims from different data sources and identify data integrity issues
- Perform unit, system and regression testing for programs for quality assurance
- Performance tuning of existing applications and analytics
- Guide and advise developers to identify and improve the efficiency of current programming practices
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, ideas and information relating to technologies and be a key technical expert within the team
- Lead/Mentor new and existing team members
- Continually identify deficiencies in production processes, propose enhancements, and implement those enhancements to increase productivity or reduce manual effort
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience with SAS
- 3+ years Relational Database experience - Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, and/or Snowflake
- 3+ years of analysis, process, problem solving and critical thinking experience
- 1+ years of Healthcare Data Experience
- UNIX
- Azure, Python, Spark, or Databricks Experience
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with VS Code and GitHub Copilot for AI-assisted development
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy