Job Title: Principal Data Scientist
About Us:
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives.
We are guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities.
About the Role:
As a Principal Data Scientist, you'll help set effective drug pricing within our provider networks to meet client and pharmacy contract guarantees through financial and network pricing modeling, analysis, and reporting.
You will work alongside other data scientists and business stakeholders to implement models from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, analysis, modeling, performance tracking, and documentation.
Responsibilities:
* Work alongside other data scientists and business stakeholders to implement models from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, analysis, modeling, performance tracking, and documentation.
* Assist with managing client and pharmacy financial performance by recommending or implementing price updates.
* Manage junior team members to progress projects.
* Support operational processes with analytics.
* Own and maintain in-house reporting and analytics.
* Identify and quantify impact of pricing strategies.
* Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand data content and business requirements.
* Prepare reports and present these to various levels of internal staff.
* Identify and recommend new ways to save money by streamlining business processes.
Requirements:
* Significant experience in analytical roles (e.g. business analysis, computer science, data science, data analytics, finance).
* Experience developing production-level code in Python.
* Experience in predictive modeling/forecasting and drawing insights from data.
* Experience monitoring data quality and building data validations.
* SQL programming with the ability to perform effective and efficient querying involving multiple tables and subqueries.
* Experience in creating visualizations using all relevant data to inform decisions.
* Strong problem-solving, quantitative, and analytical abilities.
* Experience in cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Master's or Ph.D. in a heavily technical discipline (e.g. business analysis, data science, data analytics).
* Experience using Python data science/engineering libraries.
* Experience with version control tools e.g. Git and Github.
* Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills.
* Experience with people management or mentoring junior staff.
* Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people, and projects simultaneously.
* Experience with object-oriented programming.
* Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.
At Optum, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes.
Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Optum is a drug-free workplace.