Technical Business Analyst - Remote, EST or CST Preferred

UnitedHealth Group•Minnetonka, MN

7h•$91,700 - $163,700•Remote

About The Position

UnitedHealthcare Clinical Services maintains and operates the Policy Integration Management System (PIMS), the source of truth for UnitedHealthcare clinical requirements. The Technical Business Analyst supports Enterprise Clinical Data initiatives, including reporting, analytics, and data integration. The role applies hands-on data engineering, SQL development, and cloud database expertise to help deliver scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions. It bridges business and technology by translating business and clinical needs into technical requirements and partnering with clinical stakeholders, data engineers, cloud platform teams, and analytics teams. The work enables effective use of clinical data to support business operations and improve healthcare outcomes. The position is remote anywhere in the United States. Employees hired in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area must work in the office at least four days per week. Remote employees must follow UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

Requirements

At least 4 years of hands-on experience in SQL development, relational database analysis, and production data support.
At least 4 years of experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or similar relational database platforms; strong PostgreSQL experience is preferred.
At least 4 years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role, facilitating and documenting requirements from business and IT stakeholders.
Experience creating, reviewing, and validating database views, functions, procedures, DDL scripts, schemas, tables, indexes, constraints, and data model changes.
Experience writing advanced SQL for data analysis, troubleshooting, reconciliation, validation, reporting, and performance-sensitive queries.
Experience using Python or similar scripting languages for automation, data validation, file processing, data profiling, or pipeline support.
Experience working in Azure cloud or similar cloud-based data environments, including cloud database services, secure data access, environment coordination, and deployment support.
Solid understanding of database design principles, data modeling concepts, data quality practices, and enterprise data governance expectations.
Remote employees must adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting healthcare, clinical policy, prior authorization, benefits, or enterprise data platform initiatives.
Experience reviewing or coordinating database deployment scripts, release packages, migration scripts, and environment promotion activities across lower and production environments.
Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, technical curiosity, and strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

Develop, analyze, and validate complex SQL queries across PostgreSQL and other relational database platforms, including joins, subqueries, window functions, aggregations, views, stored logic, and performance-sensitive data retrieval.
Design, review, and support database views, materialized views, DDLs, schemas, indexes, constraints, and table structures for clinical data ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
Partner with database engineering teams on PostgreSQL development, data modeling, query optimization, execution plan review, indexing strategies, and performance tuning.
Translate business and clinical requirements into technical specifications, source-to-target mappings, data rules, validation logic, and data quality acceptance criteria.
Build and maintain Python scripts for data profiling, file processing, automation, reconciliation, validation, and repeatable data pipeline support.
Support Azure cloud-based data environments, including cloud-hosted databases, secure data movement, environment configuration validation, access coordination, deployment readiness, and collaboration with Azure platform teams.