Position:
Data Analyst
Company:
Optum (UnitedHealth Group)
Location:
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Job type:
Full-time
Job mode:
Onsite
Job requisition id:
2371682
Years of experience:
0-3 years
Company description
Optum operating as a core division of UnitedHealth Group stands as a premier global health services and technology innovator dedicated to modernizing the healthcare ecosystem.
The company actively harnesses advanced data analytics, progressive technology architecture, and clinical insights to enhance overall system performance, optimize operational workflow, and improve global population health outcomes.
UnitedHealth Group coordinates a massive ecosystem connecting millions of patients, pharmacy services, and healthcare providers to streamline delivery models and establish modern administrative practices.
Driven by core enterprise values of integrity, compassion, inclusion, relationships, innovation, and performance, the business fosters a culture where talented individuals collaborate globally.
The enterprise remains structurally committed to breaking down socio-economic and geographic barriers to care, actively supporting minority populations, lower-income families, and historically marginalized groups.
Employee development forms a vital pillar of the corporate strategy, offering clear career trajectories, multi-disciplinary mentorship, and advanced skill acquisition pathways across analytics teams.
Recognized consistently across the industry, the firm has secured prestigious accolades including the LinkedIn Top Companies award and Forbes Best Large Employers recognition.
Operating heavily out of advanced innovation hubs in India, the organization drives key analytical automation and digital infrastructure transformations for the entire global healthcare enterprise.
The firm empowers cross-functional teams to build automated technology pipelines that replace outdated manual workflows, reducing clinical friction and improving administrative efficiency everywhere.
Through its integrated family of businesses, the organization builds scalable cloud-based systems and predictive models that fundamentally redefine how care is distributed, managed, and optimized internationally.
Profile overview
The incoming professional will join the high-impact Retail Network Reporting Team, a foundational unit within the broader Data Strategy and Analytics framework.
This professional role focuses heavily on delivering automated corporate reporting ecosystems and advanced business intelligence infrastructure to accelerate direct commercial growth pipelines.
The core mandate centers on partnering directly with Client Account Managers, Sales groups, and Proposals teams to understand commercial data requirements deeply.
Practitioners in this space act as primary translators who map complex technical backend databases into clear, intuitive, and accessible automated self-service analytics modules.
The position demands an execution-focused individual with a distinct balance of structured data manipulation talent and proactive client-facing analytical consulting capabilities.
Team members gain direct exposure to cutting-edge cloud infrastructure tools, massive repository access pipelines, and enterprise-grade data orchestration framework resources.
Key focuses include building sustainable self-service dashboarding solutions that reduce operational friction and eliminate recurring manual reporting processes across regional branches.
Candidates will systematically audit existing legacy analytical assets to identify processing bottlenecks, introduce efficiency improvements, and guarantee long-term quantitative accuracy.
The team culture emphasizes deep professional autonomy, continuous structural iteration, and a relentless passion for dissecting complex enterprise analytical challenges daily.
Employees actively cultivate scalable technical documentation, user onboarding playbooks, and continuous training initiatives to foster a truly data-driven commercial culture.
Qualifications
Demonstrated academic foundation or equivalent applied professional expertise focused systematically on rigorous technical fields like Computer Science, Data Analytics, or Business Intelligence.
Solid hands-on programming experience utilizing structured query language syntax to query, extract, manipulate, and model highly complex relational database structures.
Proven experience leveraging Python environments to perform descriptive analytics, clean unstructured datasets, and construct automated script-driven processing pipelines.
Documented history of engineering automated data pipelines, cleaning architectures, and scaling data processing jobs to manage massive analytical input volumes.
Strong professional history interacting with executive stakeholders, gathering operational criteria, and mapping those parameters directly into robust reporting solutions.
Express familiarity working within modern data infrastructure setups, with preferred knowledge encompassing Azure Cloud ecosystems and specialized Databricks analytics platforms.
Highly developed capacity to build user-friendly software documentation, detailed process workflows, and instructional reference kits tailored for non-technical application end-users.
Clear comprehension of modern operational delivery models, with specialized preference for execution methods aligned closely to Agile development lifecycles.
Targeted industry domain exposure, specifically including descriptive knowledge of healthcare systems, clinical data paradigms, or pharmaceutical analytics workflows.
Strong baseline capacity to execute corporate compliance rules, maintain strict governance across data operations, and easily adapt to evolving corporate environments.
Additional info
The role sits firmly within an Exempt operational category, indicating professional duties centered heavily on independent strategic judgment, platform design, and continuous engineering delivery.
Selected employees gain unrestricted access to holistic wellness programs spanning comprehensive life support frameworks, emotional health management, and mental resilience toolkits.
Physical wellness initiatives include expansive medical coverage plans designed to protect the individual professional alongside their core immediate family members.
Financial security platforms feature structured long-term retirement savings configurations, competitive incentive systems, and specialized wealth planning materials.
The organization strictly functions as an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, ensuring hiring decisions disregard factors like race, gender identity, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
The company maintains a comprehensive drug-free workplace protocol, meaning chosen international candidates must complete mandatory screening validation tests prior to physical onboarding.
The analytical cluster provides cross-training options that allow specialists to migrate between data engineering, business intelligence, and cloud architecture tracks.
Successful placement presents unique visibility to global project portfolios, exposing the candidate to international business operations across North American and European markets.
The dynamic operational environment requires adherence to corporate mobility guidelines, including potential deployment across distinct functional units, schedules, or regional branch offices.
Candidates will directly collaborate with central information technology groups to continuously upgrade underlying physical servers, cloud databases, and data lake frameworks.
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