Python Job: Principal Data Scientist - Hybrid

Letterkenny Open Evening

Come to our Letterkenny offices on Wednesday 1st March (4:30pm – 7:30pm GMT) for our Opening Evening, where you can learn more about our Letterkenny & Ireland career opportunities, with a special focus on Technology, Analytics, Business Operations and more!

Optum Offices, Windy Hall, Knocknamona, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland, F92 K685

Register now!

https://optum.co/event

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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.℠

OptumRx, 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.

Careers with Optum offer hybrid work arrangements and individuals who live in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to regularly work from home (remote). Here at Optum we use the office space to promote community, enhance collaboration and foster innovation.

About the role:

As a Principal Data Scientist within our Pricing Analytics team, you'll help with advancing our solutions for setting effective drug pricing within our provider networks to meet client and pharmacy contract guarantees through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis and reporting. As you do, you'll find that you can make a real impact while enjoying the resources, backing and opportunities that you'd expect from a Fortune 6 leader.

Primary Responsibilities:

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  Work alongside other data scientists to design and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modelling, model deployment, unit testing, performance tracking and documentation
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  Develop new concepts, technologies and products to meet emerging customer requirements
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  Identify and quantify impact of novel pricing strategies
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  Prepare reports and present these to various levels of internal staff
  


• Identify and recommend new ways to save money by streamlining business processes
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  Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand data content and business requirements

Required Qualifications:

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  Experience in predictive modelling/ forecasting and drawing insights from data
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  Experience developing production-level code in Python
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  SQL programming with the ability to perform effective and efficient querying involving multiple tables and subqueries
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  Experience monitoring data quality and building data validations
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  Experience working with and creating databases and visualizations using all relevant data to inform decisions
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  Strong problem solving, quantitative and analytical abilities
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  Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines
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  Experience in working within Agile methodology

Preferred Qualifications:

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  Master’s or PhD in a heavily technical discipline
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  Experience working as part of an agile delivery model
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  Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills
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  Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people, and projects simultaneously
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  Experience with object-oriented programming and unit tests

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organisation 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 has to 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.℠

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