Senior Data Analyst

Requisition Number: 2370816
Optum is a global organization 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.
The Data Analyst will be responsible for developing and maintaining business dashboards and reporting capabilities intended to drive excellence in financial and operational performance as well as delivering analytics and data solutions. The successful candidate will collaborate cross-functionally with various business and data analytics teams, have proven business analysis experience, and the ability to manage multiple competing business projects at one time.
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:

• Develops robust reporting capabilities and processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting on a wide variety of business metrics
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple priorities and deadlines, be detail-oriented and work independently as well as in groups
• Responsible for detailed and continuous business analysis, identifying problems and opportunities, and recommend solutions for a business
• Transforms data into meaningful and easy to understand insights for various audiences
• Participate in the development of the team's business strategy and the technical project delivery/roadmap
• Capture Business Requirements and translate into technical specifications
• Partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and business needs and develop tools and models to assist building of dashboards, data visualizations
• Work with other analysts to define technical, data and system configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
• Translate complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences
• Assist in the development of Data products and Data solutions
• Develop insights and proposals for improved business processes to enable speedy deployment and testing of future projects
• Participate in multiple phases of analytics project delivery
• Analyze processes and identify issues and obstacles to make improvements
• Evaluate gaps in processes and opportunities for automation

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:

• Degree qualification (BA, BS) in a relevant field (analytics, mathematics, economics, business, statistics, engineering, or finance) or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in Tableau and Power BI, with the ability to build concise business reporting using data visualization tools
• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL, with the ability to perform effective and efficient querying involving multiple tables and subqueries
• Proven solid experience in building and optimizing ETL pipelines and data workflows to support seamless data integration
• Proven ability to implement and manage quality assurance (QA) processes to ensure systems are reliable and accurate
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and interpreting large datasets from disparate sources, with an emphasis on ensuring accuracy and reliability of results
• Demonstrated solid interpersonal skills to partner effectively across global teams
• Proven ability to translate technical concepts into business friendly language for stakeholders
• Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated familiarity with financial reporting and performance analysis

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 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: 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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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