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UnitedHealth Group - Birmingham, AL
posted 2 months ago
About the position
As a Senior Data Analyst at Optum, you will play a crucial role in the Alabama Enterprise Data Services (EDS) team, focusing on healthcare data analysis. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with analytic business users to produce timely reports and develop analytics that support critical business decisions. You will work alongside a team of Data Architects, ETL developers, BI Report Developers, and other analysts to ensure data accuracy and quality, ultimately contributing to improved health outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provide qualitative program and data analyses
- Design, build, and maintain business rules and logic pertaining to data processing and reporting
- Support data processing, preexisting reporting, applications and customer facing reports, dashboards and analytics
- Collaborate with DBAs to create database views for end users utilizing reporting platforms such as Power BI or other reporting tools
- Validate new or enhanced technical development and implementation and work closely with Quality Assurance Engineers to achieve quality and accuracy
- Identify and document issues, patterns, and gaps in the data and/or system(s)
- Demonstrate data literacy and understand Medicaid Eligibility, Claims Processing, Federal reporting, Quality measures, Gap closures etc
- Learn about Optum and Agency products, share ideas and train, mentor and influence other team members
Requirements
- 3+ years of healthcare payer data analysis experience with Medicaid, Medicare, Healthcare Exchange, or Commercial payer data
- 2+ years gathering reporting requirements and creating design specifications
- 2+ years developing complex reports in Power BI and other reporting platforms such as Tableau
- 1+ years of experience explaining complex data analysis results to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in data analysis initiatives to support reporting and analytics
- Experience working with relational data and SQL programming (SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake or similar databases)
- Experience communicating data analysis results, including trends and opportunities, both verbally and in written form, to clients and colleagues
- Experience with the software development life cycle (i.e. Business Requirements, Technical Documentation, Quality Assurance)
- Proven ability to perform data investigation, reverse engineering of program logic, and new development while adhering to development standards and good change control practice
- Proven ability to develop and manage multiple projects with minimal direction and supervision
Nice-to-haves
- Advanced or higher level of proficiency in SQL programming, data analysis and data management
- Solid working knowledge of change, incident, and project management procedures and best practices
- Knowledge of state federal reporting requirements for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Proven to be self-guided in understanding data in physical tables or views, and ability to create/enhance stored procedures or functions pertaining to report feeds
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Career development opportunities
- Diversity and inclusion culture
