Python Job: Principal Data Scientist Open Interviews

Optum, the fast-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.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

About the Role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work

As a Principal Data Scientist within our Advanced Analytics team, you will join a multi-disciplinary team focused on improving Network Affordability, with a drive towards unprecedented growth and medical cost reduction. Major projects will include building out a contract performance & medical cost suite of analytics and improving our competitive analysis capabilities throughout negotiation processes, allowing the acceleration and expansion of insight generation and decision-making capabilities and our speed-to-market. Your work will have a significant impact on the healthcare delivery for millions of people.

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

Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Data Scientist:

• Be a functional SME for Data Science within the Advanced Analytics team and wider business
• Work alongside other data scientists and analysts to design and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modeling, model deployment, performance tracking and documentation
• Visualize referral pattern changes and network exposures as provider market share and patient dynamics shift; create predictive models that advance network interaction forecasting
• Analyze, review and interpret complex data through the development of case-studies, enabling the data to tell a story
• Understand and identify drivers of patterns/behaviors uncovered in data
• Contribute to the design and realization of analytical based tools/assets to identify and monitor non-standard patterns
• Collaborate with Clinical subject-matter experts to explore business problems and design solutions
• Share analysis and interpretation for operational and business review and planning
• Support short and long term operational/strategic business activities through analysis
• Ideate and develop strategic solutions with business partners to mitigate rising trends in medical costs
• Develop recommended business solutions through research and analysis of data and business process and implement when appropriate

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Principal Data Scientist:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (i.e. applied mathematics, physics, computer science) or relevant work experience
• Demonstrable success within a Data Science environment focused on agile thinking and innovative solutions, delivering complex and challenging projects
• Experience applying computational algorithms, statistical and programming methods using (R and Python) to structured and unstructured data
• Proven experience in understanding complex problems and datasets and driving data testing and strategic testing of ideas to come up with first-class solutions
• Demonstrated ability to own and lead projects that deliver real business value

Preferred Qualifications of the Principal Data Scientist:

• MS/PhD in applied mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, statistics, bioinformatics, actuarial science or similar numerical degree
• Experience and understanding of US healthcare system, billing of medical claims and associated data environments
• Experience creating Machine learning solutions to solve complex issues

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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: 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.

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.

How to attend

Upon arrival at the venue, please follow signage to the event registration desk.

What to prepare

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Preferred dress code

Business casual (trousers/skirt, button down shirt/blouse, optional tie)

About Optum

At Optum, we leverage leading edge technology and innovation to create a healthcare system that serves everyone more fairly, efficiently and consistently. We work to build a healthier world, one idea at a time.

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

We are proud to be a long-standing contributor to the Irish economy and community. We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of over 1,700 talented individuals. From our offices in Dublin and Letterkenny, we discover new ways to make a difference in people’s health around the world.

If you're looking for a career where you can make a positive impact every day, this is truly the opportunity to do your life's best work.℠

Come to our Open Evening on January 25th to learn more about opportunities in Dublin across our Technology, Analytics and Optum Rx (Pharmacy Services, Contracting, Network Pricing, Industry Relations) teams.

Please register for the event at: https://optumin.co/signup

Perks and benefits

• Snacks and refreshments

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