Data Scientist
Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
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.
As a Data Scientist working within the Optum Ireland R&D team supporting Optum Home & Community are developing cutting edge analytical products from one of the world’s richest healthcare datasets. You will be at the intersection of business, technology and data science.
Some of the projects you will be involved in include developing the next generation value-based care engine, assessing the risk of various medical events such as hospitalization, as well as business intelligence/reporting projects. The technical methodologies you will need to deploy to build solutions for these problems will be a combination of AI/ML models and rules-based logic systems. You will also be part of an R&D team tasked with providing thought leadership in the company through the development of new novel solutions in the health care domain which we will attempt to patent.
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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities of the Data Scientist:
- Be an independent thinker and advocate of data science methods and applications
- Research, develop and apply new innovative analytics methods and technologies from other domains to healthcare data
- The ability for critical thinking outside your immediate sphere of responsibility
- Work with autonomy and in partnership with other Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Software Engineers to find solutions to complex problems
- Leverage technical / analytical expertise across the enterprise to architect, deploy and oversee analytics and technology solutions
- Prototype new products and solutions that have the capability to transform the industry
- Ability to articulate and paint a vision, with strong communication and presentation skills, as well as strengths in translating highly complex concepts, results, models and technologies in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
- Be familiar with the state-of-the-art around big data analytics and associated technologies and techniques
- Have experience with Commercial environments and/or Products (not just internal focused)
- Work as part of a small team, sharing ideas and contributing to the strategic goals.
You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications of the Data Scientist:
- Undergraduate degree in engineering/computer/statistics
- Experience in analytics / data science in a business or academic context
- Demonstrated experience using programming to solve complex technical problems
- Demonstrated experience accessing data from various data environments
Preferred Qualifications of the Data Scientist:
- Masters degree pr PhD in a technical field (e.g. computer science, science, engineering, math / stats, physics etc.)
- Core knowledge of statistics, machine-learning and numerical / computational methods with experience in the application of these methods to business problems
- Extensive programming experience with Python/Pyspark or other analytics languages
- Experience working within a software development team and using version control systems such as Git..
- Experience of large-scale distributed computing environments (Hadoop, Hive, Databricks etc)
- Experience developing analytical solutions on cloud computing platforms i.e. Azure, Snowflake
- Experience applying deep learning methods to business problems using TensorFlow, Keras, etc.
- Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning methods for model build and deployment
- Experience applying computational algorithms and statistical methods to structured and unstructured data
- Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Tableau or PowerBI.
- Experience of the US Healthcare or Pharmaceutical sectors
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
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.
