Jobs at Optum

Leads Optum Insight Ireland’s technology-enabled product and innovation portfolio, partnering with business and product leaders to identify opportunities, develop roadmaps, apply AI, and deliver measurable outcomes. The role coordinates Product, Engineering, Data, AI, and Technology teams across a matrixed organization, develops technology talent, supports healthcare innovation, and leverages Ireland’s ecosystem, incentives, and research partnerships.

Senior leader responsible for designing, delivering, and improving BI, reporting, analytics, and data management. Partners with stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, ensure data quality, define metrics, drive automation and AI-first improvements, and lead a team of analytics specialists to support operational and strategic decision-making.

Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines integrating databases, APIs, logs, streaming platforms, and external providers. Build transformation and processing jobs, implement governance and de-identification controls, monitor pipeline reliability, and establish automation and deployment best practices. Partner with analytics, product, infrastructure, and data science teams to advance cloud-based data and analytic platforms using Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, and SQL.

Leads a data engineering team responsible for integrating complex data sources, developing pipelines, designing enterprise data architectures, and migrating on-premises platforms to the cloud. Manages stakeholders, mentors engineers, oversees project implementations, establishes engineering standards, and partners with data science and infrastructure teams. The role requires expertise in big data, cloud databases, streaming technologies, data modeling, data quality, and healthcare data integration.

Owns commercial and intersegment billing, invoicing, reconciliations, financial controls, reporting, and data-quality processes. Partners with Finance, Operations, and technical teams to improve forecasting and decision support, modernize manual billing workflows, and prepare analytics for cloud data platforms such as Snowflake. Analyzes complex datasets, explains financial variances and risks, and communicates executive-level insights.

Own the strategy, roadmap, discovery, prioritization, and delivery of a portfolio of AI-powered products, analytics solutions, and machine learning capabilities. Partner with data scientists, engineers, and business teams to deliver measurable patient and business outcomes. Establish responsible AI governance, evaluation criteria, guardrails, metrics, and OKRs while influencing senior leaders across a regulated healthcare organization. Mentor product professionals and communicate portfolio strategy, risks, and results to executives and stakeholders.

Leads the design and delivery of scalable data platforms and products for healthcare applications. Establishes standards for data modeling, quality, lineage, observability, testing, security, and operational readiness. Partners with product, AI, architecture, governance, and engineering teams to create technical roadmaps, reusable patterns, and multitenant architectures. Enables generative AI and conversational analytics solutions while mentoring engineers and evaluating architectural trade-offs.

Leads affordability initiatives from intake through governance, implementation, deployment, and value realization. Owns portfolio progression, governance readiness, executive reporting, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and operational improvement. Partners across clinical, finance, legal, technology, analytics, network, communications, and operations teams within a highly matrixed healthcare organization. Tracks portfolio health, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes while driving resolution of implementation barriers.

Manage and enhance data pipelines and analytical datasets supporting pharmacy reimbursement, network pricing, and financial reporting. Perform data validation, quality assurance, governance, and analysis of claims, pricing, and contract data. Build reporting and analytical solutions, collaborate with enterprise data engineering teams, translate stakeholder requirements into scalable solutions, and identify trends and financial performance drivers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data integrations to consolidate, transform, and prepare large datasets for analytics and ML. Enforce best practices, data governance, monitoring, and support while collaborating with business and analytics teams to improve data quality and enable insight-driven decisions.

Manages AV operations across two Ireland offices, ensuring meeting rooms, collaboration spaces, events, and executive communications remain reliable. Oversees Microsoft Teams Rooms, conferencing systems, maintenance, upgrades, vendor relationships, incident escalation, documentation, and service improvements. Partners with stakeholders to gather requirements, deliver AV projects, maintain standards, support budgeting and lifecycle planning, and provide high-quality user experiences.

Leads enterprise analytics strategy and insight generation across Optum Rx. Oversees scalable analytics, AI, automation, governance, and business intelligence initiatives that improve performance, efficiency, revenue, and client outcomes. Partners with executive stakeholders across clinical, finance, technology, formulary, and rebate functions. Establishes prioritization and performance processes, champions responsible AI adoption, and leads multifaceted teams while developing organizational capabilities and strategic roadmaps.

Supports definition and delivery of provider-facing healthcare products embedded in EHR platforms. Translates product strategy and clinical workflows into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans; maintains backlog readiness; manages dependencies, risks, and launch readiness; and improves product operating processes. Partners with product, design, engineering, integration, analytics, implementation, and leadership teams while applying AI-enabled methods throughout the product lifecycle.

Manages payer contracting and relationship activities, including contract negotiations, payer strategy, compliance, contractual obligations, issue resolution, and stakeholder communications. Maintains knowledge of payer businesses and Optum contracts while managing expectations and escalating complex concerns. Requires extensive contract management experience in pharmacy or healthcare, financial analysis skills, Microsoft Office proficiency, strategic thinking, and project management capabilities.

Leads end-to-end software engineering for scalable analytics applications, platforms, data workflows, and AI-powered solutions. Responsibilities include system design, development, testing, deployment, production support, Python/PySpark/SQL pipeline development, cloud application development, DevOps automation, technical leadership, prototyping, code reviews, and cross-functional collaboration.

Leads enterprise business intelligence and reporting for Optum Health Performance Management. Designs dashboards, scorecards, data models, reporting pipelines, visualization frameworks, and automated reporting processes. Ensures data quality, governance, documentation, lineage, and timely delivery of executive, provider, market, operational, and performance reports. Translates business requirements into scalable reporting solutions and collaborates with analytics, technology, and data engineering teams on reporting modernization.

Design, build, test, and maintain scalable data engineering solutions, including automated releases, ETL processes, data models, real-time pipelines, monitoring, legacy migrations, and security strategies. Transform raw data using business logic, support machine learning and business intelligence workloads, and produce technical documentation. The role requires extensive experience with cloud platforms, SQL, databases, data warehousing, Spark, Databricks, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, and related data technologies.

Provides strategic and operational leadership for a Provider Growth analytics portfolio. Defines analytics strategy, leads multidisciplinary teams, owns analytics products, and drives AI and machine learning adoption. Develops solutions for provider targeting, segmentation, market prioritization, campaign optimization, and growth opportunities. Partners with executives and technical teams, manages roadmaps, budgets, governance, delivery quality, talent development, and enterprise-scale data and AI capabilities.

Monitor global employee and executive travel, security events, alerts, and advisories to identify risks affecting travelers. Initiate notifications, escalate incidents, support executive travel and response coordination, verify traveler locations, document activities, and conduct shift handovers. The role operates onsite in a 24/7 follow-the-sun security operations center, including weekend coverage.

Conduct real-time global security monitoring using OSINT, traditional media, and social media. Triage alerts, assess emerging threats, prepare incident notifications and situational updates, maintain incident logs, and support security stakeholders during routine and crisis situations. The role operates in a fast-paced, in-person CSOC environment with rotational weekend and holiday coverage supporting 24/7/365 monitoring.