Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Senior Data Scientist will produce innovative solutions through exploratory data analysis, leveraging diverse datasets to drive business strategies and improve health outcomes. This role involves collaborating with teams to analyze data, communicate findings effectively, and guide key projects within the organization.
Responsibilities
- Inform and advise the clinical operation functions with empirical analyses that drive strategy with respect to key projects
- Communicate complex analyses to Leaders across the organization effectively without getting bogged down in the details of the analysis. Present a clear story of these analyses in effective Executive presentations
- For several key projects, guide the requirements and their prioritization. Act as an advisor to investigate, identify signals, technical assessments and analytically assess the impacts to our key operating metrics
- Identify new programs (supported by evidence) that need to be undertaken and transformative initiatives that help reduce our cost structure for the long-term
- Collaborate with team to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions
- Mine and analyze data from a host of data sources to drive optimization and improvement of product development and business strategies
- End-to-end analytics pipeline that includes Data Sourcing, Cleansing, Engineering, Modeling, and Interpretation - Proposes innovative ways to analyze and solve problems by using data mining approaches on available information
- Continue to adapt to changes based on emergence of new technologies, new competitors, artificial intelligence, and alternative sources of data
- Self-motivated and demonstrates an innate ability to absorb new concepts, technical frameworks, programming paradigms while employing them creatively to solve complex analytical problems
Skills
- 4+ years of experience as a programmer either in application languages like Java, C++, VB or Data Processing/ Statistical Computing platforms like Spark, SAS, R, Python
- 3+ years of data analysis experience - ability to work with huge volumes of data, disparate relational databases and schemas and design applications that efficiently scale to process hundreds of millions of observations
- Proven solid presentation and communication skills with ability to develop high level executive as well deep-dive technical presentations
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native ETL pipeline such ADF, Airflow, Databricks DLT
- Experience with cloud computing and analytics ecosystems such as Azure or AWS
- Experience building scalable business reports using Power BI or Tableau
- Domain expertise in healthcare services, health insurance or adjacent space
- Proficiency in distributed analytics frameworks particularly Apache Spark (PySpark or Scala)
- Proficiency with Git and version control systems
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
Company Overview
We’re evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://frontiertherapies.optum.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Optum has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 73 in 2026, 648 in 2025, 559 in 2024, 620 in 2023, 851 in 2022, 593 in 2021, 438 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.