welcome to one of the toughest and most fulfilling ways to help people including yourself we offer the latest tools most intensive training program in the industry and nearly limitless opportunities for advancement join us and start doing your lifes best worksm the data scientist will provide recommendations and actionable insights through analysis of data this individual will need to effectively communicate results of data analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders including but not limited to marketing member engagement and leadership exhibits a strong curiosity about data and excels at harvesting insights from highly complex data across multiple data sources using advanced analytic approaches excels at telling a story with data and influencing others to adopt new ideas products andor approaches assists in predicting emerging customer needs and develops innovative solutions to meet them primary responsibilities handson experience in big data technologies like hadoop hortonworks preferred but open to cloudera mapr or even apache hadooppig hive mapreduce flume kafka sparks etc knowledge of big data advanced analytics concepts and algorithms text mining social listening recommender systems predictive modeling etc managing stakeholders expectations and working with business users to gather requirements resolve business rule requirements and perform joint conceptual data model reviews utilizing a range of existing big data technologies and data modeling techniques such as starschema snowflake hybrid and new design techniques optimized for data acquisition storage and visualization and evangelizing the data models and techniques managing the balance of current and future needs or user requirements in both design and content resolving semantic discrepancies in data definitions that arise among multiple sources and projects knowledge of programming javapythonr is preferred exposure to toolsplatforms hadoop eco system and db systems domain knowledge expertise healthcare is preferred experience to business intelligence or data analysis reporting experience to sql database and data models experience in bi platform english proficient assessment will be required after application required qualifications bachelors degree in engineering business finance quantitative or related field 3 year of experience in sas r or python 2 years of business analytics experience knowledge of data analysis programming and reporting with a solid understanding of data storage structures knowledge of relational databases database structures english proficiency preferred qualifications demonstrated process improvement workflow benchmarking and or evaluation of business processes required experience with project methodology requirements design development test and implementation experience in uiux designing careers with optum heres the idea we built an entire organization around one giant objective make the health system work better for everyone so when it comes to how we use the worlds large accumulation of healthrelated information or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve optum part of the unitedhealth group family of businesses brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential for you that means working on high