Director, Data Analytics & AI Innovation

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Pension contributions matching

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Optum is hiring for a Director, Data Analytics & Applied AI Solutions in Dublin. This senior role leads a team of data analysts to scale data, analytics, automation and AI capabilities, translating operational challenges into secure, scalable analytics and AI-enabled solutions.

The role partners across business, operations, product, data science, engineering and technology to drive measurable impact, adoption and production readiness. Hybrid work from Dublin with home-based options is offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Statistics, Data Analytics, Business or related field.
• Experience leading BI, analytics delivery and performance teams.
• Proven AI/ML and automation project delivery from concept to production.
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into data-driven roadmaps.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data Operations roadmap for data, analytics, automation and AI.
• Identify opportunities for AI to improve analytics delivery.
• Deliver AI/ML, automation, data mining and LLM-enabled solutions to production.
• Lead BI, reporting, analytics, data management and decision-support.
• Build partnerships with engineering, product and business teams.
• Define metrics, dashboards, data quality and performance insights.
• Coach and develop a high-performing, inclusive analytics team.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, Business, or related discipline

Tools

LLM integration

Automation tooling

Data analytics software

Job description

Optum is hiring for a Director, Data Analytics & Applied AI Solutions in Dublin. This senior role leads a team of data analysts to scale data, analytics, automation and AI capabilities, translating operational challenges into secure, scalable analytics and AI-enabled solutions.

The role partners across business, operations, product, data science, engineering and technology to drive measurable impact, adoption and production readiness. Hybrid work from Dublin with home-based options is offered.