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Optum

Senior Informatica Data Analyst - Remote

Optum, Sacramento, California, United States, 95828

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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.

Overview Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Depending on the specific role and business line, responsibilities may include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights, and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Roles may partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization. Other roles may involve producing and managing the delivery of activity and value analytics to external stakeholders and clients. Team members typically use business intelligence, data visualization, query, analytic and statistical software to build solutions, perform analysis and interpret data. This function focuses on descriptive and regression-based analytics and leverages subject matter expert views in the design of analytics and algorithms.

Primary Responsibilities

Use Informatica PowerCenter to Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) source data from agency sources, applying transformations, making corrections to source files, and adding new fields to the EDW via the change request process

Automate the staging of data by scheduling scripts to run at optimal times to enhance system performance and efficiency

Create, maintain, and support an ETL/Informatica architecture and system environment for development and production

Implement ETL jobs by creating mappings, mapplets, sessions, and workflows

Work with ETL transformations including Aggregator, Expression, Filter, Router, Sequence Generator, Update Strategy, Joiner, Rank, Source Qualifier, Lookup and Sorter

Schedule and monitor ETL/Informatica jobs in development, system testing, and production environments

Develop proactive processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning

Provide support and advisory input to development teams on technical issues

Troubleshoot production support issues post-release deployment and propose solutions

Develop and maintain complex SQL queries and scripts used to create data marts in Teradata

Participate in project discussions to document and recommend alternative technical solutions or requirements

Participate in unit, integration, and system testing

Maintain effective communication and relationships with project stakeholders

Learn new technologies as needed to perform job duties effectively

Provide status updates and meet deliverables to leadership and customers

Required Qualifications

5+ years of Informatica PowerCenter / ETL experience

5+ years of complex SQL and performance tuning experience

5+ years of experience with RDBMS databases – Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server

5+ years of experience with front-end data warehousing or similar processing, including extracting data for large files from various sources, cleansing data, and preparing data for loading into a data warehouse

Intermediate skill level with Microsoft Office Suite and Visio for written communication, status reports, technical and procedure documentation, and stakeholder communication

Experience deploying program changes to production

Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications

Proven excellent verbal/written communication skills, client-facing experience, teamwork, and mentoring abilities

Strong organizational skills with the ability to set priorities and meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

ETL/Informatica or SQL or BI or Teradata certification

Experience with Cognos

Experience with SAS or other statistical reporting tools for large-volume databases

Experience working in Agile environments

Experience with Data Warehouse technologies in ETL/data integration, BI, and relational/multi-dimensional databases

Remote work policies in line with UnitedHealth Group requirements

Compensation and Benefits Pay is based on factors including local labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications. In addition to salary, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution are available (subject to eligibility). Salary range for this role is $89,900 to $160,600 annually for full-time employment. We comply with all applicable minimum wage laws.

Application Details Application deadlines and posting details vary. This role may be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool is collected. Job postings may close early due to volume of applicants.

Equal Employment Opportunity At UnitedHealth Group, we are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, 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.

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