Senior Business Systems Analyst - Nashville, TN

o industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward. We need attention to every detail with an eye for the points no one has considered. The rewards for performance are significant. You'll help improve the health of millions. And you'll do your life's best work.(sm)Optum Advisory Services is seeking a skilled Senior Business Systems Analyst to lead efforts to expand and optimize analytical capabilities and insight generation within client health systems. This role will be responsible for partnering with operational, clinical, and financial domain experts as well as analytical platform architects and other organizational stakeholders to craft effective analytics built on a scalable framework to optimize efficiency.Primary Responsibilities:Creating and promoting reporting standards that help drive effectiveness of analytics and efficiency in new efforts

Confirming that new analytics adhere to data and platform guidelines created in partnership with platform architects, data governance, data engineering, and other relevant teams

Expediting the turnaround time to create new analytics

Acting as a subject matter expert on data enrichment and content curation

Ensuring complex analytics adhere to statistical best practices

Key Activities:Create new analytical content, enhance existing analytics, and rationalize ineffective or outdated tools

Build sophisticated data enrichment processes that server as the single source of truth to expanded insights on base data

Lead efforts to create content design standards that promote consistency and meet common user requirements for level of curation, reporting flexibility, discoverability, methodology insights, analytical confidence, and the general user experience

Partner with the broader analytics team to support data lineage, effective data strategy, and user confidence in the validity, integrity, and actionability of the data

Collaborate with business intelligence architects and domain analysts to maximize the effectiveness of business intelligence tools, dashboards, and other dynamic reporting capabilities

Lead user acceptance testing for new or materially modified content

Manage access to content to ensure that only appropriate resources are seeing data in appropriate ways

Partner with the broader analytical platform team to ensure accuracy and efficiency in aggregation and alignment of foundational data assets needed to power analytics

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:Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in information technology, engineering, math, computer science, analytics, or related field)

Minimum of 4+ years of health system analytics professional experience (e.g., business intelligence; data mining, aggregation, and enrichment; analytical content creation; analytical storytelling; user requirement gathering; analytical process documentation)

One or more Epic Certifications

Minimum of 2+ years of experience with Epic Clarity and/or Caboodle data models

Minimum of 2+ years of experience with Epic Reporting Workbench and/or Radar

Minimum of 2+ years of experience writing business logic in SQL, Python, Scala, or other similar coding language

Minimum of 4+ years of experience working with industry standard relational and non-relational data storage systems (preferably Microsoft SQL Server)

Minimum of 2+ years of experience building new content within common reporting and business intelligence platforms (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Crystal Reports, etc.)

Minimum of 2+ years of experience managing analytics initiatives with minimal guidance

Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Please note that this role does not support SponsorshipPreferred Qualifications:Advanced degrees or certifications in Technology, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Science or related field

Strong working knowledge of healthcare analytics and background in healthcare organizations

Depth of experience and proven track record creating and promoting analytics-based decision making within healthcare organizations

Experience creating design standards for analytical content

Experience leveraging multiple content dissemination techniques to meet user requirements

Experience with data migration, ETL tools, and related processes (e.g. SSIS, Informatica, Epic Batch Process, Data Courier, etc.)

Strong experience with one or more of the following EPIC modules or components: Caboodle, Clarity, Epic Care Everywhere, Grand Central, Healthy Planet, Prelude, Resolute, Reporting Workbench, Slicer Dicer

Experience contributing to cross-functional efforts, with proven success in creating healthcare analytics

Experience creating advanced analytical methodologies or algorithms

Experience building dynamic analytical capabilities inclusive of reporting, dashboards, extracts, BI tools, analytical web applications and other similar products

Ability to support multiple client initiatives or projects

Ability to communicate complex concepts verbally and in writing

Experience and credibility interacting with analytics and technology leadership

Willingness to travel up to 10%

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)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.Job Keywords: analytics, coe, business, systems, analyst, "Analytics COE", business intelligence, BI, storytelling, EPIC, certification, Clarity, Caboodle, Nashville, TN, Tennessee