Senior Data Analyst

About 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.

Primary Responsibilities

• Implement Data Governance policies and standards within the HCP Data Catalog solution to enable CrimsonAI use cases.
• Design and build AI-enabled automation to streamline governance workflows (e.g., metadata onboarding, approvals, stewardship routing, exception handling).
• Configure and operationalize governance controls (data classification, glossary alignment, lineage, ownership, retention, access/usage rules) as embedded platform capabilities.
• Develop reusable AI components (prompts/templates, validation checks, evaluation criteria, guardrails) to support consistent and compliant AI adoption.
• Partner with Data Stewards, Product Owners, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Compliance to translate governance and regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Create and maintain scalable metadata models, business glossary artifacts, and standardized definitions to support CrimsonAI modules and downstream consumers.
• Build quality and compliance monitoring signals (policy adherence, completeness of metadata, anomaly detection) and enable reporting for governance KPIs.
• Perform testing and validation of AI-driven governance features to ensure accuracy, explain ability, auditability, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Document solution designs, operational runbooks, and support procedures; provide knowledge transfer to sustain ongoing operations.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to catalog integrations, metadata pipelines, and governance workflow automation; drive root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual governance touchpoints and improve time-to-delivery for CrimsonAI product releases.
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data engineering, or building data platform capabilities in an enterprise environment.
• Hands-on experience implementing governance standards within a data catalog and/or metadata management platform (e.g., defining glossary, ownership, classification, lineage, stewardship workflows).
• Experience building automation for workflow-driven processes (APIs, scripting, rules engines, orchestration tools) to reduce manual operational effort.
• Solid understanding of data controls and risk domains: privacy, security, compliance, retention, access management, and auditability.
• Proficiency with one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, SQL; plus Java/Scala a plus) and experience integrating with APIs/services.
• Proven ability to translate policy and business requirements into technical designs, measurable controls, and platform features.
• Proven communication skills and proven ability to partner across product, engineering, and governance stakeholders.

Company Mission

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.

Key skills/competency

• Data Governance
• Data Catalog
• AI Automation
• Metadata Management
• Python
• SQL
• Data Engineering
• Compliance
• Risk Management
• API Integration