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Energize your career with one of Healthcare's fastest growing companies. You dream of a great career with a great company - where you can make an impact and help people. We dream of giving you the opportunity to do just this. And with the incredible growth of our business, it is a dream that definitely can come true. Already one of the world's leading Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly pursuing new ways to operate our service centers, improve our service levels and help people lead healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a difference and right now, we are living it up. This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: Optum - a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 6 leader. Optum Analytics solutions create a longitudinal view of both individual patients and patient populations. We gather, normalize, and analyze data from disparate sources that, uniquely, span the continuum of careincluding EHRs, Practice Management Systems and claims. Our EHR data alone accounts for over 80M patient lives across the U.S. You'll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:- We are looking for a data scientist who is eager to tackle the challenges of extracting insights from vast amounts of EHR data originating from multiple sources
- You will work with a diverse set of Optum researchers, clinicians, internal and external clients to define the projects and see them through to completion that cover a range of clinical focus
- You would be participating in the development of our end-to-end NLP pipeline, building descriptive and predictive analytics and producing research validations
- Specifically, as a member of our collaborative team you will be working with structured and unstructured data to explore the data, develop models, and performing research analytics
- You will have the opportunity to work with open-source distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark and build scalable machine learning applications and deploy them in production
- The right candidate will have strong prioritization skills, ability to manage ad hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or Linguistics or equivalent degree area
- 1+ years of experience as a hands-on data scientist, non-managerial role and executing on data science, analytics, or programming projects (academic projects maybe considered to equal the required 1+ year of experience. Projects need to be clearly outlined in the resume)
- 1+ years of experience in machine learning, predictive modeling, or natural language processing
- 2+ years of experience in Python
- Experience with leveraging best practices conducting advanced analytics projects
- 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. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders.
- Experience with Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or spaCy
- Experience with open-source distributed data processing frameworks, such as Spark
- Experience in Biostatistics or related field
- Experience with SQL or relational databases
- Familiarity with EHR data and standards
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