Data Analyst 2

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.

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 or Letterkenny offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support engineers and business users of Individual and Family Plans (IFP) PCOR reporting applications
• Validate new or enhanced technical developments and work closely with engineers to achieve quality and accuracy
• Data validation and testing, collaborating with colleagues and resolving data issues in a timely manner
• Work closely with business to gather and finalize requirements, business documents, or user stories
• Design, build, and maintain architecture pertaining to data validation and QA automation
• Load data and be able to create user friendly views, providing technical solutions
• Responsible for maintaining existing data load process building blocks and customizations
• Demonstrate data literacy and be resourceful in terms of understanding Medicare overall, STAR measures, gap closures and claims
• Learn about the products, share ideas and be able to train or influence other team members

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

• Bachelor's degree or proven experience in a relevant field
• Proven experience working with relational data and SQL programming (SQL Server, Teradata, or similar databases)
• Proven experience in a QA role - testing, analyzing and validating data
• Proven experience in data processing involving data movement between various servers (SQL/Snowflake/Hive), working with text files, and other data sources
• Experience of business intelligence solutions and architecture (Power BI, Tableau or similar)
• Experience with the software development life cycle (i.e. Business Requirements, Technical Documentation, Quality Assurance)
• Self-guided in terms of understating data in physical tables or views, and ability to create/ enhance stored procedures or functions pertaining to report feeds, or any input/output
• Ability to develop and manage multiple projects with minimal direction and supervision
• Ability to perform system investigation, reverse engineering, and new development while adhering to development standards and good change control practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Python and Snowflake
• Experience in Healthcare, Financial Services, or Insurance Industry
• Experience with automating ETL package
• Knowledge of US Healthcare and Medicare
• Solid communication skills with experience presenting ideas and solutions to business customers

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.

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.

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. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.