Business Data Analyst - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

2h•Remote

About The Position

Optum is a global organization 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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. The ideal candidate for this position is detail-oriented and highly innovative. He or she will also be responsible for translating business needs to IT solutions. They need to be able to operate in complex and often ambiguous situations. This role is about advancing and integrating our customer data with modernization approaches that have broad impact to our marketing and customer experience organization. It’s about leveraging our current foundational data infrastructure and enhancing it so that members are presented with relevant messages at the right time and in the right channel. This person will have a high degree of individual responsibility and will be expected to quickly become a data expert within the organization. They will be comfortable working both independently and cross functionally in executing multiple data projects simultaneously. The ideal candidate will have an analytical mindset with solid attention to detail, and leverage AI to streamline workflows, enhance insights, and improve execution quality, while establishing guardrails to ensure responsible and compliant use. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Requirements

4+ years of experience supporting data related initiatives (system integration, data warehouse build, data mart build or related) and a proven track record of exceeding expectations on these initiatives
4+ years of business analyst experience
1+ years of QA/UAT experience
Proven solid documentation skills (business requirements documents, source to target mappings, transformation rules, etc.)
Ability to write/understand complex SQL queries involving advanced unions, joins, aggregations, and groups

Nice To Haves

Adobe Experience Platform experience
JSON experience
Azure experience
Python experience
R experience
Workfront experience
Rally experience
MS Office Toolset experience
Experience with Healthcare data
Experience with marketing capabilities
Proven solid communication skills
Project management experience

Responsibilities

Experienced data and business analyst
Understand and document the business requirements based on the customer’s needs. This includes understanding and evaluating the enhancement request, the business process, and general system capabilities
Support data modernization efforts and data migration to enterprise solutions
Champion the thoughtful adoption of AI tools and techniques across initiatives to accelerate analysis, enhance quality, and scale impact, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards
Research and gain a high-level understanding of data elements and sources
Data Profiling and Creation – in particular, experience working with streaming data sources and profiling data
Define the source of data – type of ingestion, relationships, tables, variables, and transformations that may be needed
Become a SME in how the data will be used and how it functions
Create and ensure that artifacts are complete per the business and the artifact is ready for review with IT teams to begin the Solutioning phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Presenting ideas and findings in meetings
Create process flows to simplify hand off from business to IT resources
Excel at problem solving, identifying the root cause and approach a challenge in multiple ways
Proactively troubleshoot data quality issues by identifying the root cause of data discrepancies and determining and implementing recommendations for resolution
Work with business counterparts on operational readiness activities to ensure that necessary training and procedure updates have occurred
Contribute to the execution of the Adobe Experience Platform data roadmap including initiatives related to data quality, data unification, data governance, data movement, and data access
Provide leadership and project management in a cross-team environment
Be comfortable juggling multiple projects and constantly shifting timelines in a fast-paced complex environment
Understanding of data warehousing concepts
Analyze large amounts of data and business processes to form ideas and solutions to support data enablement, standardization, cleansing of the data, and data readiness
Data Gap Analysis
Build Test Cases
Conduct data Validation and Testing
Ensure business rules are clearly defined
Ensure metrics are clear and have supporting data
Ensure metrics are measurable
Ensure requirement collection is standardized - Data Selection or Transformations (including Table Joins)
Ensure Data Governance standards are incorporated