Senior Data Analyst - UHC MR Health Adv - STARS

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If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

Support the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Develop a deep end-to-end understanding of data strategy, structure and overall use within the business
Collaborate with project stakeholders and technical teams regarding enhancements, changes, issues and defects that may impact development, data, workflow and/or functionality
Oversee day-to-day ETL processes - job monitoring, issue identification, documentation, analysis and resolution
Respond to production issues in a timely manner for a number of critical deliverables related to daily and month-end reporting to UHG business and regulators
Drive completion of projects and initiatives, follow through on execution of strategies and demonstrate ability to stay the course despite obstacles
Develop, implement, and ensure compliance with standard operating policies and procedures
Drive root cause analysis and long-term solution for critical and high impact data processing issues
Application monitoring and performance tuning to meet SLA performance
Provide forecasts (Work Estimates) and plan resource requirements
Problem/Incident management involves working with cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams to solve unique/complex problems that have broader impact to the business
Coordinate special ad-hoc processing to support business needs
Provide defect resolution/workaround
Responsible for release management which includes review of implementation plan, completion of operation readiness checklist, participation of release coordination meeting and code package deployment
Code tuning, and management of development efficiency-related project activities
Ensure high quality & best in class methodology processes are being used
Establish clean database environment with proper relationship diagrams, data mapping, & indexing
Design ETL (extract/transform and load) processes to populate database tables
Key contributor in requirements definition of most complex business initiatives
Collaborate with cross functional teams that include Business Analysts, Quality Assurance Analysts, Product Leads/Owners and Business Stakeholders
Performance management, operational metrics development and recommending infrastructure improvements
Works at highest technical advisory level on the most difficult analysis and design assignments

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Depending on the specific role and business line, example responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Roles in this function could partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles involved could include producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. Team members will typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. Positions in this function work on predominately descriptive and regression-based analytics and tend to leverage subject matter expert views in the design of their analytics and algorithms. This function is not intended for employees performing the following work: production of standard or self-service operational reporting, casual inference led (healthcare analytics) or data pattern recognition (data science) analysis; and/or image or unstructured data analysis using sophisticated theoretical frameworks.

Reviews the work of others
Develops innovative approaches
Sought out as expert
Serves as a leader/ mentor

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
Ability to adapt quickly to fast-paced changing environment
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
5+ years SQL coding experience
5+ years knowledge and use of the ETL tools - SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
5+ years SDLC Experience - promoting SQL code and SSIS packages though Dev/Test/Stage/Prod environments
5+ years code automation/job scheduling (i.e.Tivoli)
3+ years of experience leading business data transformation programs / initiatives
3+ years Teradata coding experience
3+ years SSRS coding experience
2+ years healthcare technology background
2+ years working in an agile project methodology
2+ years working in a waterfall project methodology
2+ years version control using Github and XL-Deploy
If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years SAS coding experience
3+ years Stars Analytics experience
2+ years System Analyst/Solution Architect experience
2+ years working in a Big Data Environment(Hadoop/Hive)

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement. The Boomer generation is the fastest growing market segment in health care. And we are the largest business in the nation dedicated to serving their unique health and well-being needs. Up for the challenge of a lifetime? Join a team of the best and the brightest to find bold new ways to proactively improve the health and quality of life of these 9 million customers. You'll find a wealth of dynamic opportunities to grow and develop as we work together to heal and strengthen our health care system. Ready? It's time to do your life's best work.(sm) Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $79,700 to $142,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives

All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: Data Analyst, SAS, SQL, STARS, Telecommute

Vacancy expired!

ID	#15434342
State	Minnesota
City	Minnetonka
Job type	Permanent
Salary	USD TBD TBD
Source	UnitedHealth Group
Showed	2021-06-14
Date	2021-06-13
Deadline	2021-08-12
Category	Architect/engineer/CAD
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Senior Data Analyst - UHC M&R Health Adv - STARS - Telecommute