Senior Data Scientist: AI Enablement & Network Analytics

UnitedHealth Group; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Ireland is hiring multiple Senior Data Scientists across Network Analytics and AI Enablement. You will apply advanced analytics to lower healthcare costs, improve quality and access, and own end-to-end technical workstreams with mentorship from senior leaders.

The role offers hybrid work with options to split time between Dublin or Letterkenny offices and a home-based office, partnering with engineering and business teams to deliver production-grade solutions in

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, data science, physics, computer science, engineering or related quantitative area
• Proven extensive experience with SQL and R/Python or other analytics languages
• Demonstrated experience using programming to solve complex technical problems
• Proven experience applying analytics and data science in a business context to drive insights and outcomes
• Demonstrated effective communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and deploy analytics/data science solutions through hands-on coding, owning meaningful workstreams that deliver measurable improvements in healthcare cost, quality, and access
• Build and use LLM-assisted workflows and implement evaluation practices to validate correctness and consistency of outputs
• Write maintainable, production-quality Python/R and SQL, contributing to pipelines, tools, and models, and partnering with data/software engineering to operationalize solutions
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate questions into clear analytical problem statements, success metrics, and delivery plans; communicate progress and results in a concise, actionable way
• Take joint ownership with Data Engineering for the availability, quality, and enrichment of our data
• Identify and assess analytics and ML opportunities, define requirements and acceptance criteria, and contribute to solution design aligned with team goals
• Apply advanced analytics techniques to surface emerging risks/opportunities and inform interventions
• Contribute to solid team practices through code reviews, sharing best practices, and knowledge-sharing
• Demonstrate solid curiosity and energy for emerging data science and applied AI capabilities, learning new techniques, sharing learnings with the team, and translating promising approaches into practical improvements
• Continue building domain expertise in healthcare and the U.S. healthcare system to ensure solutions are context-aware and impactful

Skills

SQL

Python/R

Communication skills

Data science

Education

Undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, data science, physics, computer science, engineering or related quantitative area

Master's degree, PhD in a quantitative field or relevant professional qualification

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Ireland is hiring multiple Senior Data Scientists across Network Analytics and AI Enablement. You will apply advanced analytics to lower healthcare costs, improve quality and access, and own end-to-end technical workstreams with mentorship from senior leaders.

The role offers hybrid work with options to split time between Dublin or Letterkenny offices and a home-based office, partnering with engineering and business teams to deliver production-grade solutions in