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Data Scientist Associate @ Optum

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 Data Scientist Associate

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Role & responsibilities

Optum Global Solution

Optum Global Analytics

Job Title: Assoc Data Scientist Mgr Location: Noida/Gurugram/Hyderabad

About UHG

United Health Group is a leading health care company serving more than 85 million people worldwide. The organization is ranked 5th among Fortune 500 companies. UHG serves its customers through two different platforms United Health Care (UHC) and Optum. UHC is responsible for providing healthcare coverage and benefits services, while Optum provides information and technology enabled health services.

India operations of UHG are aligned to Optum. The Optum Global Analytics Team, part of Optum, is involved in developing broad-based and targeted analytics solutions across different verticals for all lines of business.

Qualifications & Requirements:

  • Bachelors / 4 year university degree
  • Experience - Between 7-10 Years of Experience with below mentioned Skills

Must Have Skills

  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • At least 7+ years of business experience in analytics, machine learning projects in Business Intelligence/Business Analysis space
  • Excellent understanding of basic statistics and advance mathematics to analyze and understand data patterns
  • Good understanding of analytics tools: R, Python, SQL, Databricks & cloud technologies
  • Ability to learn and adapt to new data technologies
  • Good knowledge around Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics techniques like Hypothesis testing, Probability, Supervised & Unsupervised Learnings
  • Ability in slicing and dicing of data structures, Natural Language Processing and good to have fundamental understanding on Gen-AI & Large Language Models
  • Good problem-solving & communication skills
  • Act in a strategic capacity as a senior technical expert for all current engagements
  • Lead project independently & with minimal guidance, including high level client communication and scope planning.
  • Experience of GenAI with advanced artificial intelligence technologies and methodologies

Good to Have

  • Good knowledge of Business intelligence tools like Tableau/Power BI, etc.
  • Certified in Azure Cloud (AZ-900)
  • Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

Position Responsibilities:

  • End to end experience in designing and deploying models and look out end to end productionize pipeline
  • Deep understanding on Responsible use of AI
  • Understanding on bias detection and mitigation strategy
  • Work on business analysis requests around different business problems
  • Creating analytical findings for the internal clients of UHG as per specifications received from them using information in UHG Specific databases.
  • Engage in client communications for all important functions including data understanding/exploration, strategizing solutions etc.
  • Mentoring & Grooming Junior Data Scientists
  • Lead and Drive Knowledge sharing session within the team
  • Own the technical deliveries of the team
  • Perform quality checks on the analysis and data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency before sending it across to the clients both internal and external
  • Work with Senior team members to develop new capabilities for the team
  • Being Accountable
  • Possess Achievable Drive
  • Passionate about solution product development
  • Looks forward to build and apply technical and functional skills
  • Focuses on understanding Goals, Priorities and Plans
  • Possess problem solving approach

Job Classification

Industry: Analytics / KPO / Research
Functional Area / Department: Data Science & Analytics
Role Category: Business Intelligence & Analytics
Role: Data Analyst
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Optum
Location(s): Noida, Gurugram

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Keyskills:   Business Intelligence Machine Learning Business Analysis R Artificial Intelligence Cloud Data Bricks Python SQL

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About: OptumInsight India Pvt Ltd, a UnitedHealth group company is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to help make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 115,000 people worldwide, Optum combines technology, data and expertise to improve the delivery, ...