Senior Technical Analyst

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

By delivering solutions across spectrums of health care Optum is focused on our aspiration of improving experiences and outcomes for everyone we serve while reducing the total cost of care. In support of this, OptumInsight's purpose is to connect the health care system with trusted services, analytics and platforms that make clinical and administrative processes valuable, easy and efficient for everyone.

OptumInsight provides analytics, research, consulting, technology and managed services solutions to hospitals, physicians, health plans, government agencies, life science companies and other industry partners. In addition to our many commercial clients, OptumInsight capabilities and technologies are leveraged by OptumHealth, OptumRx and our sister company UnitedHealthcare.

As a Senior Technical Analyst, you will be working with Payment Integrity Data Mining team. Your primary responsibility will be to assist in the development and deployment of advanced analytics designed to detect claim overpayments across various platforms and lines of business. This will play a crucial role in enabling recovery and cost avoidance, significantly contributing to our overall organizational efficiency and success.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives
• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Engage with clients to clearly define business requirements
• Interface professionally with database, ETL, modeling and development teams
• Perform complex data analysis to support research requests by the client
• Create technical specifications, unit test plans, dataflow diagrams and logical data models
• Follow quality assurance guidelines including the documentation, review and approval of all project related artifacts
• Coordinate with development teams, operations teams and management to enhance operational metric reporting
• Troubleshoot client and operational issues quickly and comprehensively
• Lead operational processes
• Support, train and mentor fellow analysts and developers
• Work with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Introduce AI-powered tools and agentic systems to scale analytics and enhance decision support across business units
• Function well within a matrix organization (E.g. - supporting multiple leaders)

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:

• 5+ years of experience as a data analyst
• 4+ years of experience writing SQL queries/scripts
• 4+ years of Healthcare claims experience
• 3+ years of Analytic testing experience
• 2+ years of structured and unstructured database experience
• 2+ years of IT technical writing experience
• Advanced Excel skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Python for data analysis
• Audit Recovery, Coordination of Benefits (COB), or Fraud experience
• Healthcare data analytics experience (Financial and Metrics based reporting)
• Knowledge of cloud-based data warehousing environments

• Knowledge of AI frameworks

• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $89,900 to $160,600 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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