Job Description

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understand business objectives and analyze, dissect system requirements and technical specifications
• Interpret data and analyze results using statistical techniques; provide ongoing reports
• Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, and data analytics strategies to optimize statistical efficiency and quality
• Acquire data from primary and secondary data sources and maintain databases and data systems
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex data sets
• Filter and clean data by reviewing reports, logs, and performance indicators to identify and correct issues
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities
• Demonstrate strong technical knowledge in product analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting
• Show willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to evolving product needs
• Work independently with little or no supervision
• Provide technical mentoring and troubleshooting support to team members
• Understand design concepts and product architecture
• Propose solutions for performance, scalability, and security issues
• Identify process gaps and drive initiatives to address and close gaps
• Partner with product owners and developers to improve efficiency and delivery effectiveness
• Communicate ideas clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing, to business and technical stakeholders
• Participate in communities of practice to share knowledge, learn, and innovate
  Research, evaluate, and implement tools that support software delivery
• Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements
• Solve moderately complex problems and conduct moderately complex analyses
• Leverage AI tools and technologies including Java, Python, Copilot, GenAI, and NLP
• Drive innovation by integrating intelligent and AI-assisted solutions into engineering and business processes
• Work effectively on less structured, complex technical issues
• Serve as a technical resource and point of reference for others
• Communicate and interact effectively with co-workers, management, and customers
• Work with business analysts and developers to create and analyze project documentation
• Comply with software development life cycle standards, strategies, and best practices
• Adhere to employment terms, company policies, procedures, and organizational directives
• Demonstrate flexibility with changes in work location, team assignments, shifts, and work arrangements as required by business needs
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• B.Tech./MCA (Minimum 16 years of formal education, Correspondence courses are not relevant)
• Experience defining and analyzing multivariate tests
• Experience or knowledge in query structured and unstructured data and perform exploratory data analysis for further advanced modeling
• Proficient in Java, PLSQL , CI/CD, Spring Boot, Airflow, Python, Agentic AI
• Understand the business requirements and can speak to different stake holders
• Proven to be deeply analytical
• Proven ability to lead the team technically and provide solutions

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 marginalized 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.