Principal Data Analyst- Dublin & Letterkenny, Ireland

Optum is a global organisation 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 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.

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

Optum, the fastest growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities. Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

About the role:

The Pricing team is part of Optum Rx’s Dublin office and is a key contributor to enabling the delivery of ever more sophisticated pricing tools and strategies. Our solutions help the organization to maintain its competitiveness in winning new business and driving our market presence.

The team has a very strong technical, data and analytical capability which supports the bid life-cycle through automation, analytics and data driven strategic recommendations. The tools and solutions developed are scalable, robust and production ready to meet ever growing bid activity.

Its creative approach to problem solving drives the innovative deliverables from the adjacent possible to the transformational. This moves us up the sophistication curve and brings the power of data and analytics to bear on more aspects of the bid process.

Its analytical function works to interrogate historical bid data to extract informational and actionable insights which are consumed by our multiple business partners from pre-sales to underwriters and executive leadership. Leveraging our strong business relationships these new tools and insights are integrated into existing processes to empower our business partners and collectively achieve our specific economic targets and plans.

Working Schedule:

This is a full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Engage with stakeholders to understand strategic requirements to inform your solutions/ delivery

• Independently, or working with the team, develop data/ analytical-driven solutions to deliver tools/ analyses to meet requirements

• Leading solution delivery projects; ensuring the delivery of robust, sustainable and scalable solutions while engaging with IT and business partners

• Be self-directed in interrogating data to shape your analyses

• Recommend innovative ideas and/or procedures to improve existing strategies

• Present to audiences of varying organizational roles and hierarchy levels

• Develop strong working relationships with key partners across the business

• Influence senior management decisions that impact business direction

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (mathematics, physics, engineering, finance, economics etc.) or equivalent experience

• Extensive experience in analytical roles using SQL and one or more of the following R, Python or similar

• Experience with Git version control system (e.g. Github) and knowledge of DevOps and agile development practices

• Proven ability to work with large datasets across disparate relational databases and familiarity with various database technologies

• Experience in data ETL and blending tools

Preferred Qualifications of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Experience with cloud technology (e.g. databricks, Snowflake)

• Experience creating visualizations using Power BI or similar, to tell a compelling story with data and effectively deliver actionable insights

• Competency evaluating existing business processes, designing, communicating, planning and effecting change

• Experience in managed health care or pharmacy benefit management

Soft Skills of the Principal Data Analyst:

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, a strong work ethic, and demonstrated teamwork skills

• Ability to take ownership, function independently and effectively within teams and in a self-directed environment

• Highly motivated, change/innovation agent and self-starter

• Strong communication skills, able to work with stakeholders from multiple levels and disciplines

• Ability to influence others and achieve common goals

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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