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Lead Analytics Engineer – Remote

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Salary

The salary range for this role is $104,700 to $190,400 annually.

Location

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

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 Cthey 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.

Our team provides Analytic Application development and support for Optum Payment Integrity.  We provide data analytic development services that identify overpayments or recoveries for Fraud Waste Abuse and Error (FWAE), and Provider Education.  This position will develop new analytics, enhance existing analytics, and maintain and improve the applications that support these analytics using bigdata tools, Azure, Pyspark and PL/SQL.  

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and implement analytics rules engines
  • Research, evaluate, and deploy new tools, frameworks, and patterns to build sustainable Big Data platform
  • Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions
  • Define and develop APIs for integration with various data sources in the enterprise
  • Analyze and define customer requirements
  • Assist in defining product technical architecture
  • Make accurate development effort estimates to assist management in project and resource planning
  • Create prototypes, proof-of-concepts & design and code reviews
  • Collaborate with management, quality assurance, architecture, and other development teams
  • Write technical documentation and participate in production support
  • Keep skills up to date through ongoing self-directed training

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:

  • 8+ years of experience in hands-on software development
  • 5+ years of experience in Oracle databases and PL/SQL
  • 3+ years of experience in development with Python using Pandas, and Spark
  • 2+ years of experience in Azure cloud platform or similar cloud platform
  • 2+ years in Bigdata tools, like Databricks, Spark, Cassandra

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 2+ years of experience with Agile/Scrum methodology and best practices
  • Experience in scheduling tools, such as ADF/Airflow
  • Data analysis experience
  • Functional testing experience
  • Healthcare industry experience
  • Understanding of SOA (service-oriented architecture) concepts
  • Proven excellent analysis, process, problem solving and critical thinking skills

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