As a Principal Data Scientist you will play a vital role within our Total Cost of Care Team and will have the opportunity work with healthcare data across both our Medical and Pharma RX business, giving a unique opportunity to generate insights across the entire lifecycle of a member.

You will play vital role in driving complex and critical projects, including the development of a risk surveillance suite of analytics and a Premium Value Formulary product to assess the impact and effectiveness of drugs and clinical programmes. This is an individual contributor role that will work on the most challenging and business-critical work, alongside the opportunity to mentor and become a thought-leader for the wider team.

If you’re interested in healthcare and innovation, this opportunity will give you the chance to help improve the health of millions of people and to do your life’s best work. ℠

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement innovative analytic solutions including anomaly detection, member profiling and population level prediction and exploratory data analysis from unstructured and diverse datasets
• Deliver robust and scalable analytic solutions in an automation ready state
• Actively consult with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure appropriate medical and business content is incorporated into analytic approaches
• Collaborate with lines of business to understand their analytic needs, contribute to shaping business solutions and communicate results of analytics
• Apply knowledge of statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation, and advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries to prototype development and product improvement
• Use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive and prescriptive models and advanced algorithms that result in optimal value extraction from the data
• Work with analytics and statistical software such as SQL, R, Python and Big Data tools to perform analysis and interpret data
• Provides mentorship, support, training and guidance to team while simultaneously guaranteeing data integrity, accuracy, and adequacy within the department

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (i.e. applied mathematics, physics, computer science) or relevant work experience
• Demonstrable success within a Data Science environment focused on agile thinking and innovative solutions, delivering complex and large-scale projects
• Experience applying computational algorithms, statistical and programming methods using (R and Python) to structured and unstructured data
• Proven experience in understanding complex problems and data-sets and driving data testing and strategic testing of ideas to come up with first-class solutions
• Demonstrated ability to own and lead projects that deliver real business value

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS/PhD in applied mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, statistics, bioinformatics, actuarial science or similar numerical degree
• Experience and understanding of US healthcare system, billing of medical claims and associated data environments
• Experience creating Machine learning solutions to solve complex issues

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.SM

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.