Hybrid Data Analyst - Remote Data Analyst - Remote with verification

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 diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.Work collaboratively with People Analytics and People Analytics customers in the development and production of standard and customized rapid response reporting and data visualization to drive actionable decision makingYou’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing/developing, programming, maintaining and publishing operational/strategic reports
• Provides operational/strategic analysis utilized for decision making
• Make recommendations based on analysis and provide explanations for reporting results as needed
• Assess and interpret customer needs and requirements and interpret customer requests for feasibility, priority, and complexity
• Consults on existing solutions for possible enhancements or new solutions to solve customer questions to standard or non-standard requests/problems
• Analyze and investigate customer issues with structured and unstructured data
• Create and maintain internal process documentation and customer-facing help documents
• Support 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
• Proactively keep data secure and decommission legacy content in our environment
• Understand 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 datasets
• Understand basic user experience standards for online products
• Serve as a resource to others within the People Analytics community; provide explanations and information to others on difficult issues, problems, and solutions
• Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks

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

• 2+ years of experience with Human Capital/People Teams, business or financial analysis, etc.
• 2+ years of experience analyzing data and combining datasets to develop reporting products/solutions
• 1+ years of experience building dashboards and visualizations in a data visualization tool such as Domo, Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI or similar Business Intelligence platform
• Working Knowledge of SmartSheet
• Experience researching issues, investigating data accuracy, and performing quality checks
• Experience communicating both verbally/written with people at a wide variety of levels in an organization
• Previously worked or are currently working as a contractor placed at UHG or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in data extraction, manipulation, validation, and management
• Experience researching issues, investigating data accuracy, and performing quality checks
• Intermediate level of experience in ETL for visualization tools: complex formulas, inner and outer joins, aggregate data, and pivot data
• Intermediate level of experience in SQL/HiveQL: counts, select statements, filters, groupings, etc.
• Project Management skills
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $70,200 to $137,800 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.