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About Us
At Optum, we deliver care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. Our work directly improves health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best.
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We have a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.
What We Do
In healthcare, evolution doesn't just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. At Optum, innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day.
Job Summary
We're expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work.
Role Description
You will join a team of data scientists and data analysts who are responsible for building the pricing engine on our pricing platform. We build algorithms that find the optimal combination of prices to achieve multiple targets, given multiple constraints and uncertain future outcomes.
Your Responsibilities
* Develop logic and algorithms in our Pricing Engine to optimize more pricing on our pricing platform.
* Research methods and solutions, analyze data, prototype solutions and critically evaluate designs to optimize pricing.
* Advocate for both technical and procedural changes and shepherd them through to delivery.
* Ensure quality in design, coding outputs and forecasts produced.
* Collaborate with the team and partners to solve problems.
* Collaborate with other teams who will integrate prototype solutions into the data warehouse and business intelligence repository.
* Work independently and with focus when needed.
* Explore, analyze and interpret large datasets to identify patterns, trends and anomalies.
* Build data pipelines, forecasting algorithms and dashboards to track value and forecasts.
* Produce, quality check and report out on financial forecasts and pricing engine value metrics.
* Maintain your knowledge of latest technologies and techniques relating to analytics and data science.
* Guide and support other team members.
* Work within the solution delivery methods and standards set out.
Requirements
* Bachelors degree in engineering, data science, computer science, or a related field.
* A high standard of programming experience with Python and SQL.
* Experience with production system change delivery methods and techniques including experience working with the Agile delivery framework, deployment practices, version control and testing practices.
* Experience with data analysis and problem solving.
* Knowledge of best practices for optimization and prediction model development.
About 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.