Job title: Senior Data Scientist – Remote
Company: UnitedHealth Group
Job description: Optum Home & Community Care, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, is creating something new in health care. We are uniting industry-leading solutions to build an integrated care model that holistically addresses an individual’s physical, mental and social needs – helping patients access and navigate care anytime and anywhere.As a team member of our HouseCalls product, we provide annual clinical assessments to patients in the comfort of their homes. This important preventive care helps identify and reduce health risks for patients, in addition to coordinating appropriate follow-up care to improve health and well-being.We’re connecting care to create a seamless health journey for patients across care settings. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.In this role you will have the ability to achieve work life balance. Flexible scheduling offered where providers can flex their time over the 7-day work week. No on-call, no weekends and no holidays required.Within Optum’s Home & Community business, the Data Science team impacts the quality care delivered to patients and the experience of field clinician performing in-home visits.The Logistics Intelligence functional area within the Data Science team especially focusses on the efficiency of field operations – including routing optimization, territory formation, and network coverage. Their primary functions are Optimizing the experience of both their members and practitioners, Automating complex manual tasks, and adding Intelligence with innovative ML/AI solutions, geospatial analytics, and home-grown algorithms.Home & Community’s Data Science team is uniquely positioned within their operations team. They are involved in every aspect of their projects, and their responsibilities included problem formulation, solutioning, requirement gathering, research, development, implementation, reporting, and ongoing production support.As a member of the Logistics Intelligence team, you will be responsible for developing innovative solutions, implementing them, and supporting them in operations. You will also have opportunities to interreact and collaborate with colleagues and the diverse array of projects across the broader Data Science team.You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.Primary Responsibilities:
- Independently design, develop, and test the technical execution of innovative solutions which optimize field operations while satisfying operational constraints, business rules, and requirements from stakeholders
- Support production implementation of models and applications
- Ongoing performance monitoring and bias testing of deployed applications
- Develop and support visual reports of model results for non-technical business partners and stakeholders
- Support leadership, business partners, and stakeholders as an expert in field operations and logistics
- Analyze the business value of strategic initiatives and provider recommendations to leadership
- Ad Hoc analysis of business performance and investigation of operational issues
- Serve as a leader and mentor for colleagues and junior Data Scientists
- Peer review code and processes developed by colleagues
- Create and maintain project plans and technical documentation
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:
- 5+ years in applied data analytics and programming using Python
- 5+ years in optimization techniques and algorithms – e.g., constraint programming, gradient decent, unsupervised machine learning, etc.
- 3+ years in query optimization and data engineering with MS SQL Server
- 3+ years developing and implementing automated business processes
- 2+ years in logistics, operations research, supply chain, network optimization, or related field
- 2+ years with data visualization and business intelligence (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, ArcGIS)
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders and determining the needs of end users
- Familiar with predictive modelling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
- Proficiency in converting raw data into actionable information and strategic insight
- Proven ability to design custom optimization techniques and non-obvious solutions, when out-of-the-box solutions are insufficient
- Proven acumen for problem solving, and the ability to work independently and resourcefully even when there is lack of documentation, fragmented data sources, unstructured requirements, and ambiguity
- Proven ability to independently research and learn new skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ArcGIS’s tools for network optimization and territory formation
- Experience with Azure Cloud for model development and deployment
- Experience in healthcare analytics
- Experience developing, documenting, and deploying supervised ML models and AI solutions
- Experience with infrastructure administration (e.g. Windows Server, SQL Server, Tableau Server, Azure Cloud)
- Patent applications and inventorship
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter PolicyCalifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. 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.
Expected salary: $88000 – 173200 per year
Location: Eden Prairie, MN
Job date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:27:26 GMT
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