Associate Data Scientist Job in 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 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 UHG

UnitedHealth Group is a leading health care company serving more than 100 million people worldwide. The organization is ranked 7th among Fortune 500 companies with 2019 annual revenue of ~242 BN $ driven by a solid, dedicated and inspired team of 325K employees located globally with diverse talents and background, building our United culture. UHG serves its customers through two different platforms UnitedHealth Care (UHC) and Optum. UHC is responsible for providing healthcare coverage and benefits services, while Optum provides operations, analytical and technology enabled health services across healthcare ecosystem.

India operations of UHG are aligned to Optum. Omni Channel & Strategic initiative analytics team is responsible for driving analytical solutions and research to help transform UHC and Optum s solutions across Customer Engagement and improving Experience using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud Processing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a lead-data scientist and help improve business processes leveraging data science tools & techniques
• Understand business requirements and convert into analytical solution
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Develop data science algorithms & generate actionable insights as per business needs and work closely with cross capability teams throughout solution development lifecycle from design to implementation & monitoring
• Manage day to day leadership and stakeholder communication including development plan
• Document work appropriately for production support and transition readiness
• Acquire & enhance understanding of US Healthcare domain
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• B.tech and/or MS in computer science or equivalent
• 12+ months of hands-on experience of solving real world business problems leveraging data science tools
• Experience building NLP models and training data sets
• Working experience of NLP skills (like Text Classification/ Summarization/Entity Recognition/Natural Language Generation / Transfer Learning Concepts etc.)
• Sound knowledge of Text (Unstructured data) data handling & manipulation
• Programming: knows R/Python with PYTORCH/TensorFlow, Knows how to leverage pre trained models(Via Transfer Learning)
• Proficient in MS Office tools as Excel/PowerPoint/Access
• Proven ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating good level of maturity
• Proven excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven excellent problem-solving & story-telling abilities with analytical mindset
• Proven excellent interpersonal and team skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Understanding & experience of SparkNLP framework