Manager, Principal Data Scientist

Company: UnitedHealth Group Inc
Location: Minnetonka
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Improve the lives of others while doing your life's best work. SM Senior Manager, Principal Data Scientist - Minnetonka, MN (883120) UnitedHealthcare is a company that's on the rise. We're expanding in multiple directions, across borders and, most of all, in the way we think. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about transforming the health care industry. Ready to make a difference? Make yourself at home with us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

Self-motivated and demonstrates an innate ability to absorb new concepts, technical frameworks, programming paradigms while employing them creatively to solve complex analytical problems

Builds, Manages and Owns entire Analytics Pipelines that includes Data Sourcing, Engineering, Modeling and Interpretation - Proposes innovative ways to analyze and solve problems by using data mining approaches on available information

Performs data profiling, cleansing, and enhancements, identifies usable features while ensuring consistent formatting with an eye towards repeatability as well as flexibility for future changes

Identifies sources of truth, data domains, and attributes to support current and new hypotheses across lines of businesses (Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial etc.) and functional domains (Clinical, Operational, Financial etc.)

Transforms datasets for analytical research versus traditional reporting and optimizes the performance of large datasets for analytical speed and cost-effective storage

Builds analytical models (supervised, unsupervised) that extract the necessary signal from the data which test a variety of hypotheses and draw meaningful interpretations against the business context

Formulates actionable insights and articulates analytical findings to senior leadership across multiple lines of business, while exposing assumptions and validation work in an easily understandable and consistent manner

Synthesizes key initiatives with broad impacts to identify opportunities in alignment with and support of key business metrics

Dynamically manages priorities to support cross-functional projects and collaborates with team regularly to brainstorm ideas and solutions, provide feedback on analysis and share knowledge

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:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics related field or equivalent experience in Technology or Analytics

8+ 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

5+ 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

Demonstrated presentation and communication skills with ability to develop high level executive as well deep-dive technical presentations

Demonstrated interpersonal and relationship skills necessary to work with an integrated team of customers, product managers, project managers, developers, analysts, and quality engineers

Demonstrated communication (oral & written) skills along with relationship-building and customer facing skills are needed with an ability to facilitate meetings with Business and IT stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience leveraging the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g. Hive, Pig, Spark) as a Data Lake for offloading traditional ETL workloads

Demonstrated ability to leverage SAS/Hadoop to solve advanced analytics use-cases

Project management or Process Optimization experience

Experience in the PBM/healthcare services or adjacent space

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 7 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that’s second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can 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.

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

Requisition Number 883120

Job Title Senior Manager, Principal Data Scientist - Minnetonka, MN

Job Family Analytics

Business Segment UHC Benefit Ops - Gov't Ops

Job Location Information UnitedHealth Group is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or accommodation for any part of the application process, please call 1-800-561-0861 and press or say 1 for Applicant to be connected to Recruitment Services. Recruitment Services hours of operation are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. CT, Monday through Friday.

UnitedHealth Group is a registered service mark of UnitedHealth Group, Inc. The UnitedHealth Group name with the dimensional logo, as well as the dimensional logo alone, are both service marks for the UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

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.

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