Senior Informatica Data Analyst - Remote - Remote Eligible

Join Our Team At Optum

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Positions in this function are responsible for the management and manipulation of mostly structured data, with a focus on building business intelligence tools, conducting analysis to distinguish patterns and recognize trends, performing normalization operations and assuring data quality. Depending on the specific role and business line, example responsibilities in this function could include creating specifications to bring data into a common structure, creating product specifications and models, developing data solutions to support analyses, performing analysis, interpreting results, developing actionable insights, and presenting recommendations for use across the company. Roles in this function could partner with stakeholders to understand data requirements and develop tools and models such as segmentation, dashboards, data visualizations, decision aids and business case analysis to support the organization.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Use Informatica PowerCenter to Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) source data from agency sources, applying numerous transformations to the data that are required, applying corrections to the source files and the addition to the EDW of any new fields requested via the change request process
2. Automate the staging of data by scheduling scripts to run at optimal times enhancing overall system performance and efficiency
3. Create, maintain, and support an ETL/Informatica architectural and system environment for development and production
4. Implementing ETL jobs by creating mappings, mapplets, sessions, and workflows
5. Working with different ETL transformations including Aggregator, Expression, Filter, Router, Sequence Generator, Update Strategy, Joiner, Rank and Source Qualifier, Lookup, and Sorter
6. Scheduling and monitoring ETL/Informatica jobs in a development, system testing, and production environment
7. Developing proactive processes for monitoring capacity and performance tuning
8. Supporting and advising the development teams on technical issues
9. Troubleshoot production support issues post release deployment and come up with solutions
10. Developing and maintaining complex SQL queries and/or scripts used to create data marts in Teradata
11. Participating in project discussions to document and recommend alternative technical solutions or requirements
12. Participating in unit, integration, and system testing
13. Maintaining effective communication and relationships with all individuals involved with the project
14. Learning new technologies as needed to be able to perform job duties effectively
15. Providing status progress and meeting deliverables to leadership and to customers

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:

• 5+ years of Informatica PowerCenter / ETL Experience
• 5+years of complex SQL and Performance Tuning Experience
• 5+ years of experience with RDBS databases - Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server
• 5+ years of experience with front-end data warehouse or similar processing which includes extracting data for large files from various sources, cleansing data, and preparing the data for loading into a data warehouse
• Intermediate skill level with Microsoft Office Suite of tools and VISIO in facilitating written communication such as developing status reports, creating/updating technical and procedure documentation, and communication with team members, end users and stakeholders
• Experience deploying program changes to production.
• Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare applications
• Proven excellent verbal/written communication skills, end-client facing, team collaboration, and mentoring skills
• Proven solid organization skills and ability to set priorities and schedule work deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ETL/Informatica or SQL or BI or Teradata Certification
• Experience working with Cognos
• Experience working with statistical reporting data tools such as SAS for large volume databases developing and maintaining production reports
• Experience working in Agile
• Experience with Data Warehouse technologies within the domain of ETL/data integration, Business Intelligence, relational and multi-dimensional database systems

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). 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.