Optum is looking to solve healthcare data analysis and reporting challenges by hiring a Data Analyst to develop and implement data product requirements, extract and analyze healthcare data, and provide insights to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on healthcare data analysis, business analysis, or technology consulting experience in healthcare data
- 3+ years of experience with SQL and Python
- Strong understanding of healthcare data, including clinical and claims datasets
- Experience working in Agile environments, writing lean user stories and requirements
- Ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented work environment
- Demonstrated compliance with regulatory obligations and data privacy standards
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product owners and business users to gather and implement data product requirements, incorporating feedback continuously
- Design, develop, and optimize queries to generate reports and extract data from source systems for end-users
- Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and determine technological solutions
- Create detailed specifications, record layouts, and workflow diagrams for report generation and data extraction
- Contribute to ongoing data quality assessments and improve analytic business processes for efficiency
- Establish and maintain relationships with data senders and serve as a subject matter expert on clinical and claims data
- Support business justification and execution for new data acquisition initiatives
Other
- Serve as a resource and mentor for team members, providing training and guidance on data analysis and business issues
- Communicate complex data insights effectively to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Participate actively in Agile development cycles, writing user stories and ensuring timely delivery of data solutions
- Promote a collaborative, inclusive team culture that encourages growth, learning, and innovation
- Flexible remote work arrangements within the U.S.
