Optum Health Analytics team is looking for a Principal Data Analyst to provide comprehensive and actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics by building and leveraging analytical tools.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience developing and troubleshooting complex SQL queries
- Demonstrated experience integrating and mining large data sets to generate insights and inform business decisions
- Experience with structuring data for effective utilization including sourcing, cleaning, managing, manipulating, automating, and optimizing output
- Experience with Visualization Tool(s)
- Experience with Excel Modeling
- Experience with programming and relational database software such as Snowflake.
- Experience working with EPIC/ATHENA/eCW
Responsibilities
- Build and leverage analytical tools to provide comprehensive and actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
- Capture business requirements that can be translated into technical specifications/solutions
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- Possess both sharpened technical and interpersonal skills with emphases on; quick learner, curiosity, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and the ability to influence large audiences
- Translates highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional collaboration across Optum Health national and local teams as well as other OptumHealth businesses to stay informed on key initiatives, elicit business domain expertise, learn the drivers of each business area, gather and consolidate data, and align on the analytics approach and insights great attitude, passion, and persistence to solve complex problems
- Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, Business Administration or equivalent experience
