Leads data scientists, analysts, and engineers integrating pricing models into an enterprise pharmacy pricing platform. Provides technical leadership across solution design, platform integration, production delivery, analytics architecture, and software engineering. Manages resources, coaches team members, partners with product, engineering, and business leaders, drives continuous improvement, and communicates analytical results and predictive models. The role requires Python and SQL expertise, people management, enterprise production delivery, financial modeling, and Agile experience.
Requisition Number: 2383385
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.
About the Role:
Join a team of talented data scientists, analysts, engineers, and product experts who are passionate about solving complex problems. We help shape the price of medicines for millions of Americans through one of the largest pharmacy pricing platforms in U.S. healthcare.
You'll work on a mature, enterprise-scale product that supports pricing decisions for more than 1.5 billion pharmacy claims annually, combining advanced analytics, software engineering, and business strategy to solve complex healthcare challenges. This is an opportunity to innovate on a proven platform, influence critical business decisions, and deliver solutions that help improve affordability and health outcomes for millions of people.
As a Senior Manager Data Science, you will lead a team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers responsible for integrating pricing capabilities into our enterprise pricing platform. You will provide technical leadership across solution design, platform integration, and production delivery, ensuring pricing solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business objectives.
Drawing on your leadership experience, technical expertise in Python and SQL, and ability to work across business and technology teams, you will help shape the evolution of the platform while developing a high-performing team. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders across Ireland and the U.S. to deliver innovative solutions that drive measurable business impact.
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:
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:
Preferred Qualifications:
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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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.
About the Role:
Join a team of talented data scientists, analysts, engineers, and product experts who are passionate about solving complex problems. We help shape the price of medicines for millions of Americans through one of the largest pharmacy pricing platforms in U.S. healthcare.
You'll work on a mature, enterprise-scale product that supports pricing decisions for more than 1.5 billion pharmacy claims annually, combining advanced analytics, software engineering, and business strategy to solve complex healthcare challenges. This is an opportunity to innovate on a proven platform, influence critical business decisions, and deliver solutions that help improve affordability and health outcomes for millions of people.
As a Senior Manager Data Science, you will lead a team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers responsible for integrating pricing capabilities into our enterprise pricing platform. You will provide technical leadership across solution design, platform integration, and production delivery, ensuring pricing solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business objectives.
Drawing on your leadership experience, technical expertise in Python and SQL, and ability to work across business and technology teams, you will help shape the evolution of the platform while developing a high-performing team. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders across Ireland and the U.S. to deliver innovative solutions that drive measurable business impact.
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:
- Lead a team of developers and data scientists in integrating pricing models into the pricing platform, increasing the volume of pricing supported
- Guide technical design decisions and integration patterns across the platform
- Leverage technical analytical expertise and data analytics infrastructure across the enterprise to architect, deploy, and oversee integrated analytics/business technology solutions
- Manage and allocate resources effectively to meet program deadlines and business objectives
- Act as a thought leader and coach in applying pricing platform integration practices, modern software engineering principles, and emerging technologies
- Partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to define priorities, deliver pricing capabilities, and translate business strategy into technical execution
- Identify opportunities for new pricing and technical strategies and influence related management decisions
- Monitor industry trends and advancements in data science to ensure the team's practices remain current, competitive, and effective
- Drive continuous improvement in standards, quality, and delivery practices
- Engage with internal business and system delivery practices
- Ensure priorities for the data science team remain aligned with organizational goals
- Communicate plans, designs, analytic results, and predictive models clearly to business partners
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:
- Undergraduate degree in Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Proven experience leading cross-functional technical teams delivering enterprise-scale production systems
- Demonstrated experience programming in Python and SQL
- Proven experience in a people management capacity
- Demonstrated experience in data analysis and problem-solving
- Proven experience delivering data science solutions and financial models
- Proven experience working within Agile software delivery environments
Preferred Qualifications:
- MSc or PhD in Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Proven experience building or supporting enterprise decision-making, optimization, or pricing platforms
- Proven experience within the Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) industry
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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