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Senior Business Data Analyst at Optum

  • Full-time
  • Remote, Worldwide
  • $90 yearly

Senior Business Data Analyst

Responsibilities

  • Define, gather, and review data requirements for health insurer's Eligibility/Membership and Claims databases (e.g., Medical, Pharmacy claims)
  • Conduct data profiling and analysis to determine how source data can fulfill business and technical requirements
  • Translate business needs into clear, actionable data functional specifications
  • Collaborate with data engineers to create new repeatable data ETL processes and/ or update existing repeatable data ETL processes
  • Design and perform QA checks ensuring development efforts align with expectations
  • Author and maintain comprehensive documentation such as functional specifications, test plans, data flow diagrams, project plans, and data dictionaries
  • Research and investigate root causes of data issues and recommend effective solutions
  • Work with data engineering team to manage complex, high-volume production data processes with a focus on reliability and scalability
  • Develop analyses and insights to assess and communicate code changes/updates to production processes to internal and external stakeholders

Skills

  • 4+ years of hands-on data analysis of health insurer's Medical Eligibility/Membership and Medical Claims data
  • 4+ years Business Analyst experience, gathering requirements and writing data functional specifications
  • 4+ years of hands on experience with database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Snowflake
  • 4+ years hands on experience writing adhoc SQL against a data warehouse that contains large volumes of data from a variety of different sources
  • Intermediate+ hands on experience writing SQL statements using the following commands in a relational database (e.g., select statements with filtering, linking multiple tables, aggregating, sorting, nesting, etc.)
  • Intermediate+ experience with Microsoft Excel, including experience creating pivot tables and writing functions (e.g., SUM, VLOOKUP, CONCATENATE, etc.)
  • Demonstrated awareness of when to appropriately escalate issues/risks
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently to conduct data profiling and analysis and then summarize and present findings to others
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with data engineers, actuarial staff, project leads and manager for data driven deliverables
  • Demonstrated ability in conducting in-depth code and data reviews to validate the accuracy and reliability of output
  • Demonstrated excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Experience supporting data production processes that refresh on a regular cadence
  • Experience establishing database connections with query tools (e.g., Toad, Dbeaver, DBVisualizer, etc.)
  • Proven advanced SQL skills
  • Proven solid analytical skills to assess the impact of upstream database modifications on downstream data integrity, performance, and business processes
  • Demonstrated ability to proactively develop and recommend solutions to mitigate or resolve downstream effects to ensure continuity of business deliverables
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret relational data structures to identify dependencies and relationships between database tables and fields
  • All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Benefits

  • 💼 Comprehensive benefits package
  • 🏆 Incentive and recognition programs
  • 📈 Equity stock purchase
  • 💰 401k contribution

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