Python Job: Data Engineer - Hybrid

Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

About the role:

As a Data Engineer you will join an established team within OptumRx within our Network Pricing Analytics Team . You will have the opportunity work to with data from across our RX business, giving a unique opportunity to generate insights from the performance of individual contract line items up to overall book of business margin opportunities.

Within the role, you will build and maintain data pipelines across many OptumRx functions. We are looking for someone with a quantitative mindset, a strong aptitude for complex problem solving, strong communication and technical skills.

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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build Data pipelines to track the drug spend 3000 plus contracts.
• Process optimisation of existing ETL’s, including transition to Microsoft Azure
• Engage with internal stakeholders to derive additional data requirements to better achieve our contractual targets and meet emerging customer needs.
• Build relationships with related functions to ensure clear, two-way communications channel.
• Identify challenges and opportunities and communicate to relevant stakeholders.
• Innovating new tools or processes to leverage existing data to improve our offering, cross functionally

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Analytical / ETL roles or similar. (e.g. business analysis, data analytics, data science)
• Experience with any of the following: SQL (required), Python (preferred), or R
• Proven ability to work well and collaboratively, with multiple teams or departments for business growth or profitability goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to translate complex analytic results into meaningful insight, conveying complex or technical information in a manner that others can understand.
• The ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (finance, accounting, mathematics, engineering)
• Experience in managed health care or pharmacy benefit management
• Experience in SQL or similar,
• Experience in Tableau or similar,
• Experience in MS Azure would be beneficial.
  

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.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care must go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the Optum Ireland Telecommuter Policy.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.