Director Data Analytics - Remote

Careers at Solutran, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. We create direct spending solutions driven by our extensive financial tech experience to help those we serve be healthier, happier and more productive. Our platform helps members manage their health plans, supplemental benefits and rewards all in one place. You’ll have the opportunity to make it easier for consumers to manage their own health by making healthier products more affordable and their purchases streamlined. If you are a driven individual that thrives in fast-paced environments, values diversity and wants meaningful work that impacts the lives of many, then this is the team for you. Being part of an organization that makes healthier living easier for others leads to your life's best work.(sm)

Combine Fintech and Healthcare, two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet, with a culture of performance, collaboration, and opportunity and this is what you get - leading edge technology that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about providing advanced, state-of-the-art payment solutions to help those we serve be healthier, happier, and more productive.

Careers at Solutran, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, offer a unique and exciting opportunity to create large-impact, market-leading payments, and financial technology innovations, while delivering on the mission of improving the health and wellbeing of tens of millions of Americans.

Our industry-leading S3® payments platform is integrated at 35,000+ retail locations and supports some of the largest benefits and rewards programs in the world by offering value to consumers and directing the spending of funds to approved health-enhancing products and services. This advanced technology has led to Solutran’s rapid ascent to market leadership in healthcare benefits and has broader applicability across numerous other industries.

Working within a FinTech powerhouse, Solutran team members enjoy a culture of performance and collaboration, along with the resources and technology of a Fortune 5 company that comes with being a part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. Our teams work in close partnership with the largest and most forward-thinking companies in America including Humana, General Mills, Kroger, UnitedHealthcare, Walmart, Walgreens and more. Learn more about our latest innovations at www.solutran.com .

A major component of our mission to create transformative healthcare payment experiences involves our ability to proactive support our members, clients, retailers and internal teams with critical data and insights. We are looking for an experienced data & analytics leader rapidly advance our insight derivation across our platform and network. In partnership with infrastructure and product teams, this role will be responsible for advancing our data frameworks, internal self-service report adoption and behavior analytics workstreams.

We are looking for someone to join our team that wants to drive excellence and efficiency across each consumer transaction. Established processes, infrastructure, integration with our tools and a curious mind are each paramount to our success and ability to rapidly scale across our organization.

The right candidate is someone who can “think big” while diving deep, remain flexible to change, and someone with a passion for innovation and operational excellence.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of data analysts and scientists in execution against strategic business objectives within a FinTech organization, supporting internal, client, retailer and operational initiatives
• Distill patterns in data, which at times may be dirty data that doesn’t make sense, pursuing opportunities to think out of the box about how to reach end objectives
• Responsible for uncovering data anomalies, discovering business insights and identifying opportunities through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques
• Analyze complex operational, transactional and member data (e.g. relational databases, etc.) and derive actionable insight for decision making
• Develop presentations around insights and tell compelling stories with the data, and deliver to constituents at all levels: strategic, tactical, operational, and across all functions
• Partner closely with development and product counterparts to integrating and prioritize varied datasets, both reflecting internal member behaviors as well as exogenous data sources, to craft a holistic understanding of member preferences and behaviors
• Establish a formal intake and management infrastructure to balance needs of competing stakeholders and ensure optimal utilization of the team
• Other duties as assigned
• Produce and present meaningful recommendations, orally and visually, to influence process flows, member engagement and transaction trending by using data mining, statistical analysis and predictive modeling
• Build predictive and analytical models to enable sustainable growth and scalable operational processes

What are the reasons to consider working for UnitedHealth Group? Put it all together - competitive base pay, a full and comprehensive benefit program, performance rewards, and a management team who demonstrates their commitment to your success. Some of our offerings include:

• 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Education Reimbursement
• Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)
• Employee Discounts
• Paid Time Off which you start to accrue with your first pay period plus 8 Paid Holidays
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Medical Plan options along with participation in a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account
• Employee Assistance Program
• More information can be downloaded at: http://uhg.hr/uhgbenefits
• Dental, Vision, Life& AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage

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:

• Experience leading a team
• 5+ years of experience developing compelling presentations around insights to be delivered to leaders across the organization and external customers
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science or Actuarial Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience with data visualization tools (preferably tableau)
• 10+ years of experience in advanced SQL working with relational data in large enterprise environments with large datasets (e.g. 100+ million records)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with consumer payments/transaction data
• Master’s degree in a quantitative/business field

Where you will work:

• This is a remote position.

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $118,000 to $226,800. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. 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.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

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.