UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Senior Data Analyst, People Analytics will be responsible for building and maintaining Domo/ Power BI dashboards. Role will require the person to work closely with data consultants and reporting analysts to get requirements for new dashboards and enhancements to existing dashboards. Analyst should be able to work and excel in dynamic ever changing environment. Analyst should possess a solid working knowledge of ETLs and creating pipelines. Data analysts are also responsible for providing high level advanced triage support to stakeholders, business partners, and product teams in managing specific issue resolution activities. Analysts must possess a very solid understanding of data and visualization, and talent acquisition domain knowledge would be a plus. Some experience working with Oracle BI platforms would be a plus like OTBI, OBIEE, OAS, or BIP.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be a key or core resource for complex issues, data discrepancies, and fire drills
• Assesses and interprets customer requests for feasibility, priority, and complexity and documents and delegates those requests within an agile/intake tool
• Consult with People Analytics and People Analytics team for developing and building prioritized and standard solutions
• Develop innovative solutions for both structured and unstructured data
• Create and maintain internal process documentation and customer-facing help documents
• Lead projects and change initiatives aligned to key priorities of People Analytics and People Analytics customers
• Understands priorities and organizes prescribed and non-prescribed work to meet or exceed deadlines and expectations
• Deeply understand and innovate underlying data structures of standard reporting (complex join criteria, table sources, data types, data definitions, dataflows) and be able to find, validate, combine, and export raw and derived data assets
• Execute intermediate programming and/or scripting in at least one of our core technologies to build applications
• Leads functional calls for technical subjects (like weekly calls with data management or tech teams)
• Leads data validation efforts and leads data optimization solutions by requesting changes to core solutions in our data lake
• Reviews work of others and provides guidance on execution, best practices, and areas for improvement
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
• Proactively keep data secure and decommission legacy content in our environment
• Sought out as an expert within the People Analytics community and works cross-functionally across the team/community for shared or advanced solutions
• Serves as a leader and mentor to analysts in lower grade levels
• Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others within the People Analytics community

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:

• 4+ years of analytics experience working with Talent Acquisition, Human Capital, business or financial data
• 4+ years of experience analyzing data and combining datasets to develop reporting products/solutions
• 3+ years of experience building dashboards and visualizations in a data visualization tool such as Domo, Tableau, QlikView, Power BI or similar Business Intelligence platform
• Experience communicating both verbally/written with people at a wide variety of levels in an organization
• Experience researching issues, investigating data accuracy, and performing quality checks
• Proven knowledge of JavaScript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and HTML
• Advanced level of experience in ETL for visualization tools: complex formulas, complex inner and outer joins, reformatting and manipulating data, etc.
• Intermediate level of experience in SQL/HiveQL: counts, select statements, filters, groupings, etc.
• Proficiency is accessing and understanding code in a code repository such as GitHub

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 1+ years in an agile environment or with agile tools such as Rally or Swift
• Experience in data extraction, manipulation, and management
• Experience researching issues, investigating data accuracy, and performing quality checks
• Experience leading people (directly or indirectly) or large-scale projects
• Experience creating user stories using the "As a (role), I want (function) so that (business value)" methodology
• Basic understanding of statistical methodologies and measurements
• Proven project management skills
• Proven ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with others

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $89,900 to $160,600 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 
 

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.  

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and 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 local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.    

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.