Python Job: Data Scientist - Dublin or Remote

Dublin Open Evening

Come to the Marker Hotel on Wednesday 25th January (4:30pm – 7:30pm GMT) for our opening evening, where you can learn more about our Dublin-based career opportunities, with a special focus on Technology, Analytics, Data Science, Pharma (Contracting, Pricing, Industry Relations), Actuarial, Project Management and more!

The Marker Hotel, Grand Canal Quay, Docklands, Dublin, D02 CK38

Register now!

https://optum.co/event

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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 Data Scientists, you will be working within Optum RQPE Data Science R&D team developing cutting edge analytical products from one of the world’s richest healthcare dataset. You will be at the intersection of business, technology and data science.

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:

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  Be an independent thinker and advocate of data science methods and applications
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  Research, develop and apply new innovative analytics methods and technologies from other domains to healthcare data
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  The ability for critical thinking outside your immediate sphere of responsibility
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  Work with autonomy and in partnership with other Data Scientists and business partners to find solutions to complex problems
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  Leverage technical / analytical expertise across the enterprise to architect, deploy and oversee analytics and technology solutions
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  Prototype new products and solutions that have the capability to transform the industry
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  Ability to articulate and paint a vision, with strong communication and presentation skills, as well as strengths in translating highly complex concepts, results, models and technologies in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
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  Be familiar with the state-of-the-art around big data analytics and associated technologies and techniques
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  Have experience with Commercial environments and/or Products (not just internal focused)
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  Work as part of a small team, sharing ideas and contributing to the strategic goals.

Required Qualifications:

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  Undergraduate degree in engineering/computer/statistics
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  Experience in analytics / data science in a business or academic context
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  Demonstrated experience using programming to solve complex technical problems
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  Demonstrated experience accessing data from various data environments

Preferred Qualifications:

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  Masters degree pr PhD in a technical field (e.g. computer science, science, engineering, math / stats, physics etc.)
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  Core knowledge of statistics, machine-learning and numerical / computational methods with experience in the application of these methods to business problems
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  Extensive programming experience with Python/Pyspark or other analytics languages
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  Experience working within a software development team and using version control systems such as Git..
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  Experience of large-scale distributed computing environments (Hadoop, Hive, Databricks etc)
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  Experience working with Airflow or similar ETL scheduling tool
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  Experience developing analytical solutions on cloud computing platforms i.e. Azure/AWS
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  Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning methods for model build and deployment
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  Experience applying computational algorithms and statistical methods to structured and unstructured data
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  Experience of the US Healthcare sector

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.