Senior Data Analyst, E&I Affordability,

Optum; Dublin; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Data Analyst for their E&I Affordability team in Dublin. This role involves leveraging advanced analytics and AI to drive affordability initiatives within the U.S. healthcare system. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and proven experience in data analysis, especially in healthcare settings. Skills in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools like Tableau are highly desired. The position offers opportunities to collaborate with cross-functional teams and make impactful contributions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Proficient in writing efficient maintainable code.
• Proven experience in data analysis, especially in healthcare.
• Ability to explain complex data models and SQL queries.

Responsibilities

• Analyze U.S. healthcare system complexities.
• Collaborate with business and data science teams.
• Leverage AI for complex dataset analysis.
• Build and validate data pipelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data visualization

Machine learning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Snowflake

Git

Job description

Senior Data Analyst, E&I Affordability – Dublin, Letterkenny

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities, and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Join us to build a more responsive, affordable, and equitable health care system.

About The Role

As a Senior Data Analyst within the E&I Affordability team, you will play a key role in leveraging advanced analytics and AI to drive affordability initiatives in the U.S. healthcare system. You will collaborate with business stakeholders and data science teams to refine requirements, build predictive models, and develop scalable data pipelines. Your analytical expertise will help identify trends, create impactful visualizations, and deliver actionable insights to leadership.

Primary Responsibilities

• Learn the complexities of the U.S. healthcare system
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, ideation teams and data science teams to refine data requirements and roadmaps
• Leverage AI to analyze complex datasets and feed predictive models
• Build predictive models where necessary
• Use API access to AI models and build robust software solutions
• Identify trends and opportunities for affordability through analysis of complex datasets
• Build and validate data pipelines and provide design inputs for scalable analytics processes and data flows
• Build visualizations and deliver data insights to leadership

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Ability to write efficient, maintainable code (Python preferred) and sound software engineering fundamentals
• Proven experience in data analysis, preferably in a healthcare or managed care setting
• Ability to understand and explain complex data models
• Ability to write, understand and explain complex SQL queries and tune them for performance
• Experience with at least one RDBMS (Snowflake preferred)
• Ability to build data visualizations in at least one platform (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience using version control and CI/CD processes (Git preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with machine learning or predictive modeling
• Experience building real‑world AI solutions; knowledge of frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI is a plus
• Experience building applications with Streamlit
• Prior experience in data engineering and familiarity with data workflow orchestration tools (e.g., ADF, Airflow) and cloud-based analytics platforms (Azure Databricks preferred)

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.

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. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes.

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.