Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernising the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

　　Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries - from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

　　About the Role:

　　At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

　　Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

　　Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

　　Primary Responsibilities:

　　Demonstrate data literacy and be resourceful in terms of understanding Medicare overall, STAR measures, gap closures and claims Work closely with business to gather and finalize requirements, business documents, or user stories Design, build, and maintain architecture pertaining to data processing Load data and be able to create user friendly reports, providing technical solutions Develop views for end users utilizing reporting platforms such as SSRS, or any other reporting tools Validate new or enhanced technical development and implementation and work closely with Quality Assurance Engineers to achieve quality and accuracy Responsible for maintaining existing data load process building blocks and customizations Support data processing, preexisting reporting, applications and customer facing reports, or data Learn about the products, share ideas and be able to train or influence other team members

　　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 proven experience in a relevant field Proven experience working with relational data and SQL programming (SQL Server, Teradata, or similar databases) Proven experience in building SSIS/SSRS packages for data processing involving data movement between various servers (SQL/Teradata/Hive), working with text files, and other data sources Experience with the software development life cycle (i.e. Business Requirements, Technical Documentation, Quality Assurance) Self-guided in terms of understating data in physical tables or views, and ability to create/ enhance stored procedures or functions pertaining to report feeds, or any input/output Ability to develop and manage multiple projects with minimal direction and supervision Ability to perform system investigation, reverse engineering, and new development while adhering to development standards and good change control practices

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　Experience in Healthcare, Financial Services, or Insurance Industry Experience with automating ETL package Experience in Python and Snowflake Knowledge of US Healthcare and Medicare Experience in SAS Solid communication skills with experience presenting ideas and solutions to business customers

　　Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care must go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

　　All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

　　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 marginalised 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.

　　Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.