Business Data Analyst

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Business Data Analysts act as a bridge between the technology and business (non-technology) teams providing business growth and expansion to a capability.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Understand and document the business requirements based on the customer's needs. This includes understanding and evaluating the request, the business process or use case, and general system capabilities
  
  
  • Determine operational objectives by defining business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats
    
    
    • Analyze large amounts of data and business processes to form ideas and solutions to fix the problem
    • 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
    • Ensure Data Governance standards are incorporated
• Research and gain a high-level understanding of Data Elements and Sources
  
  
  • 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
  • Test Data Profiling and Creation
    
    
    • Ensure that individual requirements do not contradict each other or describe the same requirement using different wording
    • Individual requirements must never be unclear/ambiguous
    • Related requirements must be grouped together so that requirements can be modifiable. This characteristic is exhibited by a logical structuring of the requirements.
    • There must be a way to prove that a requirement has been fulfilled. Each requirement should be testable-it must be possible to design a test case that can be used to determine if a solution has met the requirement.
• Presentation and Handoff to IT
  
  
  • BDA creates and ensures that artifacts (SAD) 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
  • Complete the necessary reviews to hand off to development
  • Create process flows to simplify hand off from business to IT resources
  • Partner and collaborate with developers during solutioning/development phase
• QA/UAT and Operational Readiness
  
  
  • Develop QA and User Acceptance Plan (UAT) and Testing in coordination project and business leads
  • Issue resolution - 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

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience supporting data related initiatives (system integration, data warehouse build, data mart build or related)
• 3+ years of business analyst experience
• 3+ years of QA/UAT experience
• Ability to write/understand complex SQL queries involving advanced unions, joins, aggregations, and groups

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Healthcare data
• Experience with marketing or reporting capabilities
• Project management experience
• JSON
• Azure
• Solid Communication skills

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.